hosting company

I have used GoDaddy for client site staging and they just made changes that make it much more cumbersome to upload a mysql file. I have been considering moving to another hosting company for a while but inertia kept me there. Now enough is enough and I am looking for a host that provides faster page load times and cpanel on a shared hosting account. I'll have several sites in folders but not more that 10 at a time. Since these sites will be changing often until they are transferred to a client, my first priority is fast ftp and phpMyAdmin access. Live site performance is not that important.