Generally with you, except for the Rackspace recommendation, been burned and pissed off by Rackspace too many times to ever use or recommend them again. I tend

Generally with you, except for the Rackspace recommendation, been burned and pissed off by Rackspace too many times to ever use or recommend them again. I tend to try to find at least 1 good local/regional datacenter for a good portion of a server stack. There is huge benefits (IMO) in being able to drive to your servers and have a face to face meeting if there are issues and/or take your toys and go someplace else if there is a massive outage. If you're in Green Bay, options might be limited, but in any semi-major metropolitan area there are usually enough datacenter options that you have multiple choices.