A2 works fine for me:

• Same overall cost ($8/month after a 20% off coupon) as my previous host

• Many more useful features -- I get secure shell, IMAP SSL, and SMTP+TLS; I can put my own subversion repository up in my home directory; and they already had LaTeX installed on the web server

• Much better performance -- never had to submit a ticket for "everything that uses SQL is ridiculously slow, and everyone who goes to my site is complaining"

• Much better tech support -- what little dealings I've had with them has been perfect, and I don't think they'd say "your site isn't slow here, have all of you tried clearing your browser cache?"

No idea about Fantastico, since I tend to just install whatever I need from scratch.