They do offer redundant and competetively priced clustered servers.

They also have reseller account, which can be interesting to be used as simple shared account.

http://www.netfirms.com/technology

http://netfirms.com/

Infrastructure:

Load-balanced Clustered Hosting

Triple Redundant firewall

24/7 Network Monitoring

Multi-homed OC3 and Gigabit fiber connections

UPS Power Back-up

News 2007-01-22

I bought an account with their special deal.

It's $10 for a year with two domains included.

Pros:

• Quick and easy activation, setup.
• Good control Panel. Better than DreamHost (but less features than DreamHost).
• SSH and cronjob work well.
• Good diskspace bandwidth (100GB/750GB)
• Small TTL for the DNS, assuring quick propagation of DNS changes. (3600)
• Free whois domain privacy.
• 2 free domains.
• Supposed to have redundant server setup.
• Good old FreeBSD 4.10-Release
• Recent version of Python 2.4.1
• Tight security (Using PAX?)
• Remote MySQL access allowed (option)

• It's dirt cheap at less than $1.00 per month

Cons:

• Jailed shell for SSH (and for cgi?) without uptime and some other commands.
• No access to /proc, either. So, there is no easy way to know the server status.
• No gcc. Not even wget ... but they have curl.
• Cronjob must be a script.
• Because of security measure being a bit too tight, it's restrictive.
• Can't access MySQL from SSH.
• RewriteRules (mod_rewrite) not allowed ....
• I tried to test speed by downloading big file in SSH. It was killed at 660MB (after 15 minutes or so).

  I don't know if it went over the ulimit setting or something, or manually killed.

  Maybe I should rather try rsync.