Are you looking for a virtual or real server? There are pretty different consequences to both, but a virtual server is pretty much always less secure than a sep

Are you looking for a virtual or real server? There are pretty different consequences to both, but a virtual server is pretty much always less secure than a separate physical server due to "how things work". Never ever ever store really private data on a VM unless it enters it encrypted beforehand. Linode's PW/CC problem was due to poor oversight (I'd assume, otherwise its just incompetence) so probably not a huge deal if you keep your services there. There's a bunch of popular ones out there - prgmr.com, softlayer, rackspace, digital ocean, leaseweb (very long setup process) to name a few.