Hosting support

Just installed Drupal 5.0-RC-1

All seems to be fine so far but on trying to submit a new blog (or any content type)

The below error mesage persisits.....

Any Canucks on here have recommendations for good Canadian web hosting, preferably Drupal friendly of course?

Any comments on HostGator.com? Please name a site we can visit and specify which you are using:

Who uses an ISP offering managed PHP hosting where they take care of Unix/Apache/PHP/MySQL and give you control at the php.ini/.htaccess level?
What I look for:

I'm looking for a high quality drupal hosting company that won't get my site banned from Google by association. I'm not sure exactly what I need... perhaps our own C block, or perhaps a small company that has very strictly enforced anti-spam rules. Maybe both of these things. Here's what happened to me with ValueWeb - http://internetinc.com/banned-by-google

In a nutshell - SORBS blacklisted our domain because OTHER customers of ValueWeb were spamvertising. Then Google de-indexed us because of the SORBS listing. Here's the response from SORBS:

You have been included in a wider listing policy because your provider is either hosting spammers or is not taking action to prevent spam from being sent. If you are part of a wider netblock that is blocked you are not required to pay the SORBS 'fine' as the entry was not generated because of your actions, however your netblock will not be removed until your upstream removes the spammers. They will then need to contact SORBS themselves to inform us of these changes, there is nothing you can do yourself to have this listing changed or removed from SORBS.

"On occasion, when a particular network is seen to be spamming and the listing of a single IP address seems to have no effect, increasingly larger sections of the netblock will be listed. If spamming continues, the size of the listing will be slowly expanded (depending on the number of spams received) until something is done about the spammer."

I work at a webhosting company in Sweden and i wanted to start hosting preinstalled Drupal accounts for people who don't know how to make their own website and would benefit from a preinstalled Drupal account with lots of themes and modules to use. However i ran into the obvious problem of protecting the settings.php files so i'm wondering if there is a way to turn off the PHP execution function in a file somewhere so that the different drupal administrators can't turn it on?

We run PHP as CGI on our UNIX webservers though so i guess in theory i could protect the files by creating one vhost for each drupal domain, running each vhost with a different user and group for suexec and making the files in the drupal directory executable and readable by all. Then i could just change the permissions of the settings.php files to match each domains user. I haven't tried this yet because i'm waiting for the Drupal version with support for PHP 5.2.0 so i can move the Drupal hosting account to another webserver where we run the latest PHP and Apache 2.

I would still like to get the question answered though because it's good to know, possibly if i end up with a server running PHP as a module, how would you protect the files there? I'm asking only because the sites function seems to be such a core feature of Drupal, basically you can't avoid using the sites feature to some extent when you use Drupal.