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Right now I use/need about 3-7gigs of data storage (10 preferable) and up to a gig/month bandwidth for my personal and project websites. I like using dedicated operating systems with full root, either virtual or dedicated hardware; operating system must be open source unix, BSD preferred, openBSD best. I would like to support a coop or more community run service but reliability and trust are big issues. I increasingly would like to have everything physically hosted in an open and trustworthy society (netherlands, switzerland, etc), and looking forward having resources to run cryptographically secure filesystems and email service will be important.
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Currently running with <a href="http://quantact.com/openvzplans.shtml">quantact</a> with the 128 meg openVZ at $10/month with a 12% discount for 1 year contracts. Doubling storage and ram doubles the cost, additional ip's are $2. Right now running a bit unstable, probably due to overloading ssl certificates (my fault); apache is also a bit tight on the 128 megs, could switch to lighttpd? quantact provides very good support, good VM control, free DNS hosting, community wiki, and some other nice features; they have gone down once or twice over the year i've been with them, less than 12 hours total. Biggest problem is it's all linux, I run debian. Xen plans also available. Hosting is in california.
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<b>[Update Dec 2009]</b> Shifting to <a href="http://rootbsd.net">rootbsd.net</a>. Also found <a href="http://www.memset.com/dedicated-servers/virtual.php">memset.com</a> which looks good; generally things have gotten a lot cheaper/more powerful since writing the above and below.
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<a href="http://tech.coop/Virtual%20Private%20Server">tech.coop</a> offers xen hosting for about $20/month, not much bandwidth; plans scale up. seems like a cool company, hosting is in <b>canada</b>.
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<a href="http://hcoop.net/">hcoop</a> is a really cool cooperative, they charge on a sliding scale by bandwidth and resource use, around $5/month minimum. very active community, they develop hosting and systems software and release it open source. linux, probably not enough resources (2 servers for many accounts)
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<a href="http://www.compartment.se/index.jsp?t=164">compartment.se</a> seems to offer $55/month high performance dedicated servers with openbsd in <b>sweden</b>.
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<a href="http://www.gplhost.com/hosting-vps.html">gplhost</a> has offshore cheap xen hosting; netbsd is an option.
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<b>NOTE:</b> <a href="http://www.red-pill.eu/freeunix.shtml">http://www.red-pill.eu/freeunix.shtml</a> lists free unix shell accounts.
<h2>"meh" hosts</h2>
There are <i>tons</i> of USA based xen/openvz linux VPS providers now (way more than a year ago), i'm not going to list any more.
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<a href="http://www.linode.com/">linode</a> has maybe the best <b>USA</b> simple linux vps hosting ("best" as in most resources/dollar)
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<a href="http://www.hostcube.com/hosting-solutions/">hostcube</a> has nice linux xen vps'
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<a href="http://www.verio.com/vps/">verio</a> has EXPENSIVE freeBSD virtual servers
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<a href="http://openhosting.com/">openhosting.com</a> offers centOS openVPS linux servers pretty cheap with a lot of side features. sliding prices, <b>USA</b>
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<a href="http://www.bodhost.com/vps_hosting.shtml">bodhost.com</a> offers virtuozzo linux hosting, $20/month min, meh. <b>USA</b>
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<a href="http://servers.aplus.net/standard_servers.html">aplus</a> has powerful servers, but $100/month.  <b>USA</b>
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<a href="http://www.grokthis.net/">grockthis</a> seems hip, xen (linux) and dedicated, sort of expensive
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<a href="http://www.serverpronto.com/compare.php">serverpronto</a> offers a very powerful dedicated server for $30/month + $70 setup with additional IPs $10 onetime fee? 256megs ram, 40gigs storage. Has options for openBSD, freeBSD, many linicies. Hosting is in USA. Lots of <b>negative feedback</b> online re: billing and support.