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Cheap VPS?

I own a site that recently became very popular.

It was hosted on a shared server and serves httpd requests (there is no database).

I now have to move it to a VPS or DS. My budget is $400 USD / year. Any suggestions?

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Okay - let me rephrase. This question does not belong here, as its not a programming related question. Try serverfault.com; here's a decent post: serverfault.com/questions/12655/cheap-vps – Erik Jan 10 '10 at 21:05
Are you capable of managing the VPS yourself or will you need management as well? What sort of environment are you after (Windows, Linux etc)? – rodjek Jan 10 '10 at 22:22
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Wow. Surprised there's not a recommendation for linode.com yet. Great performance, great price, and good support and community. I've been happy with them.

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seconded - had one for years. – Antitribu Jan 11 '10 at 10:13
there are some very good options [1] such as Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, -- but any idea whether there are any OpenBSD hosting service available? A rumor circulating that it is a good service. [1] linode.com/faq.cfm – hhh Mar 29 '11 at 15:10
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Stretch that budget and get a 512slice from http://www.slicehost.com/. I had one for a couple of years, and they were rock solid reliable and had a good support team.

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If your based in America, I would strongly recomend HostForWeb Alternatively, you should consider something like The Rackspace Cloud (rackspacecloud.com), so that you can scale up as your website groes, without any downtime.

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as I just posted in a previous thread (probably in the last hour):

I'm willing to recommend www.ovh.com. They seem well priced, have some very good tools to use on your server, let you use pretty much any OS you like (to the point where you can install anything by booting your box off a .iso image).

OVH have been getting my money for more than a year now, and I'm constantly happy and impressed, so I'm happy to recommend them. (now if only they paid me for it ;) ).

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Actually, www.RackMounted.com are an american company I used to use. Customer service was top notch. – MidnighToker Jan 11 '10 at 4:48
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Slightly cheaper than slicehost is VPSLink, which is a no-nonsense VPS machine. You're pretty much on your own when it comes to sysadmin work for your VPS.

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Take a look at rackunlimited.com. here is a review- http://www.mrvinux.com/rackunlimited-com-vps-review/

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I have VPS on Spry, would like to recommend it. They got own data center and good technical support.

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I've been very happy with LayeredTech's Grid Layer virtual servers.

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