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Buy your own 1U system, install max ram and max disk you can or can afford. Colocate system for under $100 per month. See http://webhostingtalk.com http://webhostingtalk.com, look under "Colo Hosting Offers" forum for various offers from $39 per month on up. If you can get an offer that is local to where you are, that is better. Reason: if you are serving images you will want lots of local disk space, and RAM to serve as disk cache or to serve as RAM for your webserver with its 1000+ connections.