Is a home server good enough ?
jws: Gandi is running 30 day free trials of their VPS hosting. You could use that to see if you can make a VPS solution work for you without having to splash out any cash.I haven't used Gandi's hosting, but have used other VPS providers. You will need to be vigilant. VPS providers can degrade your experience as time goes on. I suspect they either increase the load on machines due to cost pressure, or sometimes you just get bad luck and some CPU pigs end up on your server with you.