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"ServerPronto":http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-1849001-10357280 offer a USD$30.00 per month *dedicated server* deal, with 200 Gigabyte bandwidth quota, and a 40 Gig hard drive. If you shop around you'll quickly realise this is a great deal. It's half the cost of any other dedicated service around. If you are searching for this type of stuff, be weary of services offering "dedicated servers" when in fact they are _virtual_ dedicated servers with multiple instances of the OS running on the box. I run with a dedicated server because: # I use the Ruby programming language for a lot of my code and many hosts don't provide the Ruby language on their shared hosting plans. # I have a lot of domains I run from the same server and many shared services charge for extra domains, and extra sub-domains! # I don't want to think about traffic or hard disk space Although I have not had trouble with these guys for the three or so months I've been with them, my server went down for an unknown period last night. You may have noticed this blog was unreachable for a little bit. This little incident has hurt my confidence in the company as this sort of incident could easily translate in to a loss of significant revenue/traffic in the future. ServerPronto offer a 99.999% uptime guarantee where you get one day per hour of down time credited to your account. This is adequate compensation for now, but probably not in the future. Another word of caution, only use this service (and other similar services) if you're comfortable administering a box yourself - support tends to be quite expensive. Anyway, they are still pretty good and worth keeping in mind next time you're shopping around for some hosting.