Usual question: Which dedicated for my needs...?

[potiron]

Hi,
I went through a couple of companies already and the biggest problem is the poor quality of the support... answering after 1 day even if urgent, not answering phone calls...etc.
I must add that I'm not a system admin, and to be honest I don't care about all the techi thing. I now roughly how to do the management but my main need is to be able to do the FTP, emails, having access to the logs, CRON, and of course PHP and mySQL (phpMyAdmin).

So in a nutshell, basic conf must include:
-PHP
-mySQL
-PHPmyAdmin
-FTP
-emails

So here are the questions:
: Do you recommend to have a managed hosting at the beginning (for example the first month?)
: I saw through the forum that you like ServerBeach. But they do not managed your server (in case for example you do not know how to create your CRON, or how to create an FTP account). But I read also things about ServerMatrix. Which one do you recommend for my needs?
: About the quality of the support line of the one recommended. Can you call them saying: I try a CRON job with wget and it doesn't work. What's wrong with my line?
: And eventually, you might have other recommendations... another webhosting?


:arrow: And I forgot to say: I'm in the UK... so I know it's the web has no boarders but is it a problem to take a US service?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Cheers