I've used hostmonster and that has been pretty reliable. It is kinda' like newegg versus CDW. There are some weird restrictions, you must have a fixed ip to u

I've used hostmonster and that has been pretty reliable. It is kinda' like newegg versus CDW. There are some weird restrictions, you must have a fixed ip to use the maximum execution time for cronjobs, daemons, and things running in ssh. Cronjobs are limited to 30 minutes. Daemons are unlimited (but you can get in trouble for saturating the CPU/network), web-based PHP/MySQL, FTP, etc is limited to 12 hours. I have a site that takes a 2GB csv file once every 3 months and imports it into a denormalized MySQL db, and another site that downloads several hundred images daily and resizes them into thumbnails and a second size. Each of these required creative solutions. That is what you get for ~$100/yr 'unmetered' hosting. I looked at the hosting provider you mentioned, and it seems the server is located in Germany w/ upto 4GB of RAM and 250GB of storage for ~$75/month. Says 'guaranteed resources', but who knows how quickly you can saturate the CPU? Rackspace cloud has a calculator to determine costs and you only have so much throughput, so you can calculate worse-case bandwidth scenario, or have another way to mitigate bandwidth "overages". http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers...