I have a few website projects and although I am skilled in programming I am not that well educated on web hosts -- what's a good price, key factors in evaluating them.

All 3 sites rely on a large amount of database interaction. Probably similar in many ways to this site.

If you can recommend a good host and informative reasons why, that would be great.

I should note that I intend to use PHP/MySQL , so that needs to be supported.

http://www.JuicyHosting.com/ is inexpensive, with great 24/7 phone support, also lets you host multiple sites. http://www.LocoDomains.com is also very good

Look for a host that lets you have shell access. Make sure they provide plenty of storage, and plenty of bandwidth as well. But don't trust any host that claims to offer UNLIMITED storage or bandwidth. They'll cut you off if you use "too much." You also want to make sure they don't have any restrictions about software you can run on their servers. You'll also want to make sure they give you database access, as well.

Good price varies based on how much storage and bandwidth you want.

I use Dreamhost and have been very happy with them. If you're interested in them, follow the link I'm providing and you'll get a bit of a discount- but full disclosure, I get rewarded if you sign up using my referral link =) They're not for everybody, but their prices are more than competitive (especially with the discount!), and they've got very un-restrictive policies.