I've had very good experiences with my webhost, JaguarPC. In fact, when I discovered that the current offers from Jaguar PC had more webspace for the same money as my plan, the sales reps were able to upgrade my accout immediately and at no charge. The support staff has also been quite responsive, and they are promptly addressing the missing EXIF support in PHP by recompiling PHP this weekend.
Once that's done, I can load up all my on-line pictures into my new project: a database-driven picture search facility. I'm writing it in PHP and using a MySQL database to hold the data. It's been a fun diversion, but it will also fulfill a deep need of mine to not be restricted to the static picture indexes my current pictures section provides.