US Web Hosting Recommendations

[arty]

A friend of mine in the US is looking for a basic, small-scale web host for her new business, and has asked me for advice despite my knowing practically nothing about US hosting

I was wondering if anyone here happened to have any personal recommendations for US hosts along the same sort of vein as TSO in the UK? Trying to search for 'US Web Hosting' or even looking on US forums seems to be a bit of a minefield; every one I've looked at so far seems horribly cheap / naff / suspect ('unlimited' bandwidth etc.).

She only wants to pay $5-6 a month and needs only fairly basic PHP support. I think ~30GB storage and 500GB bandwidth would be more than enough for her image-heavy site, from what she says.

Thank you in advance for any recommendations at all!

 

[arty]

Thanks for the recommendation - I'll pass it on to her

 

[arty]

for 5-6 dollars a month you could get a VPS with linnode, digital ocean, maybe AWS even using lightsail, you'd get fantastic connection, speeds etc using that route but obviously then you have to know about managing the server.

This is what I would do, but she wants a managed service and I don't want to get involved in running anything for her.

 

[arty]

Thanks - I've passed these on