My website and blog were down most of today, after getting pounded with traffic from Reddit Programming.

The day started great... I already had 600 visitors today when I woke up for work at 7AM.  Then one of my posts started floating near the top of Reddit.  My server couldn't handle the traffic and soon fell over.  It didn't come back online until just now.

Granted, I am using ultra cheap shared hosting, so this shouldn't come as a huge surprise.  However, I am now looking for some hosting that is slightly more reliable.  Aside from the the heavy traffic today, my site goes up and down intermittently all the time anyways.

Can anybody recommend some good cheap web hosting?  Basically I am looking for about 1 gig of storage and at least 3 gigs of transfer per month.  I understand that reliability and availability are something one must pay for (and usually mutually exclusive with shared hosting).  So.. I would sacrifice availability for price, as long as availability and reliability were decent.

I need both Windows (with ASP.NET 2.0) and Linux (with Python/Perl) hosting. These can be from a single provider, or with 2 different providers.  I have used lots shared hosting services over the years and all of them generally suck.

.. any good hosting recommendations?