I just lease a dedicated atom based server from interserver with a 1.5 TB sata drive in it. It comes to $49/month. I end up using it for lots of other stuff li

I just lease a dedicated atom based server from interserver with a 1.5 TB sata drive in it. It comes to $49/month. I end up using it for lots of other stuff like a vpn host so that I have an american IP when overseas, a small web server for personal projects, an always on VOIP switchbox to route from one number to all my cell phones, and a git host with gitolite for code. For backup, I just use a bunch of rsync scripts that dump onto the big disk. IMHO, everyone should have a personal server in some datacenter somewhere.