It seems like the kind of thing that well-intentioned people can get into without too terribly much capital, only to have things go totally non-linear on them.

It seems like the kind of thing that well-intentioned people can get into without too terribly much capital, only to have things go totally non-linear on them. My own minimal needs have always been perfectly well met by Linode, so I recommend them if anybody asks me (which people rarely do.) I've heard goodish things about Dreamhost, as well.