 What hosting do you use for personal projects?
idlewords: Linode and slicehost are quite expensive if you price out the RAM and disk you get per dollar, but they do let you rent quite small instances.  I've found the main difference in favor of Linode to be nice monitoring tools and graphs.Serverbeach occasionally runs specials on rented dedicated that offer very good value if you need a somewhat larger box.An EC2 small instance is also surprisingly good value if you can commit to a year up front.