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Who was your 1st provider? [non free]
There are many remembrances of 1st Provider - sweet/sour
Or good/bitter experiences 
My First Provider was C I Host @Dallas/Fort Worth - Reseller Hosting Account (Affiliate model, they didn't have bulk Reseller model that time)
and that was around - wait.. long time already - let me check the archive of email used that time (now defunct :P )
Had very good experiences for 6months-1year, then moved to cPanel reseller account with another good provider found at WHT - better savings and better panel to clients.. 
Later quickly jumped to own cPanel Dedicated :P
Edit: i wanted to discuss Non-free providers.. as i also started with Tripod.. geocities.. ourfamily etc. :P
Comments
hostrail
000webhost.com
Hate it, like it, more then 90% people here used them or other free provider before using anyone else.
+1 on this. This is if talking about VPS.
quite happy with 1 word answer eh..?
how long?
experiences?
reseller hosting/ shared hosting/vps/dedi..?
SurpassHosting - cPanel Reseller Account in '03
Still have service with them on that same account, but I'm in the process of moving to Hostingation.
First VPS is XEN over a Secure Dragon.
Tie, I signed up for two LEBs at the same time, and still have them:
Hostigation
Secure Dragon
Good experiences for both.
Oh yeah, excellent experiences...
First web host (not counting AOL) was mymarkdown.com. They were new back then. First VPS was with 123systems.
First VPS xygenhosting.com
BurstNET. Completely terrible experience.
First Shared Hosting - some Arab IIS web hosting thing, only for "selected" websites.
First VPS - HostRail, was awesome for me because it was the first VPS ever, I didn't care about speed or anything. Having said that I can't really remember, it was probably crap
First Dedicated Server - RazorServers, still have it to this date, very happy.
-LOL, I think the rest of the response is unnecessary as everyone knew the story behind it
how long?
-had it for 10 days, but actually logged in for may be 10 minutes?
experiences?
- Refer to my response to the first question
reseller hosting/ shared hosting/vps/dedi..?
- VPS, since we are on LET
I am still using them, even used them for production website. Unfortunetely I cant agree with you. For my 1 year with them - not a single outage on my node (there were some major packetloss, around 50%, 3 times so far, which ot resolved int imely manner), didn't have to contact their support even one single time and a great uptime of my node. I think I am just lucky, seeing how many people complain of them.
Zymic, back in 2006
chicagovps
First free hosting: FreeWebTown.com
First paid shared hosting: webruimtehosting.nl (Dutch host)
First VPS: RAMHost
I'm actually starting to think we were on a bad node or something.
FastVPS $12/year
They were quite good for the first few months but I think they're deadpooled now...
Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod
Yeah, this is an option as well. I really had only good experience with them so far. Event he last time I tested the IO speed it was well above 150MB/s. The network is over 500mbps as well.
First free: Tripod.
First free that wasn't awful: Panther Hosting, now defunct
First VPS: BurstNET, quite good.
My first shared hosting : Lovinghosting.com in 2004
My first vps provider: NameCheap, they're still $25 or something at that time, providing XEN HyperVM with 256MB memory in 2004
I just see no "Thank's" button now. Where it goes?
First shared: FreeHostingNoAds
First VPS: Volumedrive (oh dear, good ol' Scranton)
First Dedi: Kimsufi 2G (never used for anything, just a few file transfers/backups)
HostGator for shared, reseller, VPS.
First dedi was HiVelocity. That lasted about one month...
First VPS: HostV/Citrex
Wasn't bad. I learned A LOT.
Dec 23, 2007 - April 2008
-m
First VPS: WiredTree (A bit of a killer waste back then lol)
Exactly the same here - until they lost the data twice, and their R1Soft continuous backups were "broken".
I was at first using free hosts, then one payed for a game, back in the times when 10 MB space and 50 MB traffic were 10 $ or so, a huge amount for me back in the late nineties. I run out of traffic before the last stages of the game and had to pay 10 $ more...
I dont remember, but it was an UK based host.
My fisrt VPS was in Germany with some guys reselling hezner, terrible experience with "unmettered" 10 mb (huge at that time) I would have been happy with 1 but it wasnt even that...
Many years after i was still looking for unmettered, but I gave up some 5 years ago. Since then I had my best experience with eNS (unmettered but just because was recommended by LEA) and didnt regret it a minute, until they went down (i still dont regret it, was worth all the pennies, just regret it ended...).
M
A few years back, Virtuozzo Containers vps with Eukhost - They charged £60/mo for what would be a £3.50/mo box here.
Used them for two years, the support and uptime was fucking awesome though. And great network. So worth it for my business.