AWS or dedicated server?
ltbarcly: I just ditched slicehost in favor of http://www.vpsfarm.com$80 per month, 10mb/s unmetered, 2048mb RAM, 80GB disk.Slicehost gives 400GB, 1024mb, 40GB for $70, which isn't too bad but 400GB is a garbage amount of bandwidth, and they charge $0.30/GB for overage.vpsfarm doesn't seem to have any way to set up a backend network, so you are stuck on the one machine from what I can tell.  I haven't asked about it, but for me this is fine anyway.I've used slicehost, gandi.net, and vpsfarm's xen, and webfaction's shared hosting.  I have to say, slicehost is very very nice, but the amount of bandwidth they offer is garbage.  gandi.net is ok, but they seem to use raid 6, and my '2 unit' vm had terrible disk IO (otherwise it seemed ok, they charge $16 per unit, you can dynamically change it from 1 to 16, for example to use more resources during peak times.  you get 5mb/s unmetered per unit, which is pretty cool, but the servers are in France, so add 100ms of latency to something in the US).vpsfarm however gives very good cpu and disk performance, unmetered bandwidth, and it is a fraction of the cost of AWS if you want to run a single dedicated box.  It is super bare bones, basically nothing is provided but a root login.  So far I am really liking it.