I'm about to go on my third hosting provider and I haven't even launched my site yet. Can someone recommend a good one. I have several other php scripts that I need to run in addition to ubbthreads.

I was going to use ValueWeb. I've used them with another site for nearly 10 years. They are a little pricey and already they tried charging me an activation fee when their website said there was none for that plan.

Theres a section at UBBDev about hosting providers.

Myself I recommend http://www.WebIntellects.com to clients, but generally I recommend their VPS services, I can't recommend either way on their standard webhosting services.

Yeah but then YOUR the one that has to handle all maintenance and security for the site on your own. Great price for the Linux starter plan though.

'eh security isn't really that hard to deal with once you get in the know

LOL - debateable.

The point being that an average computer, windows users is NOT going to know a thing about securing a Linux box or preventing it from getting hacked - the good thing is that I'm sure they have it fairly well secure when they turn it over to you (that would be my guess)

Well, for those users, theres always managed vps/dedicated hosting as well; you know, for the transion of growing out of a shared host ability and wanting to migrate to dedicated resources..

If you're after quality then http://www.vertexhost.com is your answer. I have been with them for a while now and I've never had a problem. Their support is great and what's even more important is that one of their guys is a top UBB Threads guru. So if you need to host your forum somewhere then these guys are the best.

Their inhouse support is simply the best. There is always someone onduty to answer and resolve your trouble tickets 24/7. I was going to move my single shared hosting account away from them a year or two ago, and they convinced me to move in my reseller account that I had elsewhere with them and stay.

With the new manager that came in, they now have resellers, VPS, and dedicated servers. Not the cheapest, but certainly one of the better webhosts out there.

I am very happy with Vertexhost.com
They are UBB.threads experts, and friendly, and very fast to resolve every issue
I m a happy dedicated server customer.

Then one would assume he is a poster here? Who are you talking about? Being good at computers and being a GURU on a specific application would have to come from participating in code creation, modification, installation, debugging, etc (IMHO) which to me would indicate that someone is a member here.