Hmmm, these prices aren't that competitive with dedicated servers.
$479 will get you a dual-quad core dedicated with 16GB of ram these days. Even the lower end ones (2880MB) you can rent a 4GB SoftLayer box for the same price.
FDC Servers (fdcservers.net) is another good option for high bandwidth sites. 100 meg unmetered line (you can push 15 - 20 TB/mo) - good colo and dedicated server pricing.
VPS should, in theory, be higher reliability, since the virtualisation layer makes it easy for them to move your VPS between physical hosts in the event of hardware problems.
It also makes it easier to scale up and down as needed.
However, you could always do that yourself with physical boxes too.
VPS should, in theory, be higher reliability, since the virtualisation layer makes it easy for them to move your VPS between physical hosts in the event of hardware problems.
However, you could always do that yourself with physical boxes too.
$479 will get you a dual-quad core dedicated with 16GB of ram these days. Even the lower end ones (2880MB) you can rent a 4GB SoftLayer box for the same price.