Was wondering if I could get some advice from you all.  I am looking
to get my first non-free web host, and I want to make sure I am
getting a good product and not some scam artist.  (I know this is off
topic, but I need some quality advice, and I trust this group, having
used it for a number of years now)

Here are my requirements: I want to be able to host more than one
website from the host (that is, have multiple domain names pointing to
different directories on the host).  Space is not a huge issue--
nothing I'll be putting up there will be terribly big.  I want the
ability to install things like Wordpress, Joomla, and other CMS's
easily.

This will be used for my own professional website, a blog or two, and
a website for my small business.

I would appreciate any advice you could give me!  You can't really
trust the results in google for "best web hosts" because they could
very well be owned by the one they call the best.  On that note, is
there somewhere out there a good independent site rating web hosts?

Thanks so much!

Rob