My old setup of a deicated server on a cable connection had started costing me more money to deal with the outages then it would to get a VPS.
The company I choose for a Virtual Private Server was http://www.rackforce.com, it appears to be middle of the market. Not the most expensive which would include service options I do not need and not so low rent that it would be of poor quality.
They run Virtuozzo as their vps software which is a bit different then Xen.
http://www.rackforce.com/dds_dedicated_servers/dds_technology.html
Pros
- So far for the past month it has no downtime.
- Cpu time does not seam to be hogged by other vps
- When I need more their deticated servers are in my budget range
Cons
- Disk speed is fairly slow, not great for db intensive stuff. I had uploaded a 1 gig db for testing which worked, expect not very fast. Which means that those on a deticated server should stay there.
- I customized my apache for hosting.is.ca a free hosting service, it broke plesk very easily.
