I've been running wordpress sites for several years now, and usually use 1and1.com for hosting. I have never had any issues with them. My current site has to be hosted on a different server. It's a very different experience using this server. I can only connect via SSH, which is tedious, and I have to contact their support people for any server changes, creation of databases, creation of sub-domains etc. Just a different experience.
At somepoint in building this site, loading site.com/wp-admin/ produced a blank page! luckily auto fill in safari remembered some deeper admin area pages, so when I go to the themes page I can bob around using the admin nav, but I cannot EDIT PAGES. Anyone have an idea? I'm stumped.
Could it be the .htaccess file i created with instructions on the permalinks page?