Opinions on what to use for my website

Well, I had used them in the past with no problems in the past. Then last year I got 2 hosting accounts (with 2 different EIG hosting companies) with them again for some other low-end projects and had no problems for about 6 months or so.

Then out of the blue they froze one account saying my sites had potential malicious infections. They told me the only way they would unlock my account was if I bought their Sitelock security package (about $90 per website per year). They basically would not release my access to my sites unless I paid their extortion attempt $.

It after fighting with them on dozens of different phone calls I got them unlocked after jumping through their hoops. I had during that time went ahead and uploaded my websites to another host I had for other projects (Namecheap, Awesome Host) and got my sites live finally.

With the exact same files (exactly the same from a backup) I had a couple of independent highly known and top security companies, run their checks and they found ZERO malicious files.

I called the EIG hosting company and told them and spoke to a manager (again) and told him what was found. What the EIG host found were POTENTIAL backdoors in a couple of WordPress plugins and THATS what they were flagging my files as malicious for.

When speaking to the manager I got him to clearly admit that there wasn't any actual malicious files (NONE of my sites ever have had any) but just possible security holes with a WP plugin, he said "Well aren't potential backdoor threats just as bad as a malicious file?".

That was BS, there are basically potential backdoor threats in many WP plugins. I get my sites shut down for several days and lose money for that?

I even had additional security in place but because there was a reported potential backdoor threat, they shut me down! They have done this same exact scam with countless others as I had later found out.

The software that they were using to supposedly detect their malicious file threats is the exact same software (Sitelock) company of who's security software account upgrades they were trying to sell at $99 per website.

Don't get me wrong, there is no guarantee that you WILL have this happen. However, if you are one of the unlucky ones you will be cursing the day you bought hosting from them.

A few of their hosting companies, like Hostgator, used to be good hosting to use till they were bought by EIG.

Before you buy hosting from them, do yourself a favor and do a Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc. search for their Sitelock scams. I wish I had before buying from them.

I am NOT trying to be slanderous of them, I am just stating what has happened to me and many other unsuspecting buyers.

I agree. Also not having an uptime monitor (e.g. uptimerobot.com) setup to know how much downtime your website is really experiencing.