I've been using hostgator for quite a few years now and never had any serious problems where I lost data.

They did once have a serious hard drive meltdown on the server I was using, but normal service was resumed within 24hours.

They've been fast, reliable and very helpful whenever I've asked questions.

I opted for a reseller package though (not sure how that'll affect bandwidth / transfer rates) but means I can host the 8 or so sites I have without fear of going over bandwidth / space issues.   :

And you can SSH!!

Hope that helps

One aspect that seems to be being overlooked (possibly) is the marketability of the skinning.  I'm not talking about making money out of the selling of the skins themselves, more about if you are using Arduino to demonstrate a concept to a client about how something might work, then the skin of the IDE in a professional skin might be more pleasing (and subliminally selling to the client) than the standard one.  It adds an air of bespoke.

I'm not bothered about them though, but I can understand why someone might want it.  It's cool either way for me