Check out LiquidWeb, www.liquidweb.com.
Sorry to intervene in your discussion, but I wouldn't trust a company with such a flashy, unprofessional website!
they were one of only two providers for which I could find NO negative comments. Lots of positives.
It seems you've never heard of ASO :) http://asmallorange.com/
You might even *try* (30 days money back, and they do it!) a shared virtual one, you might be impressed. Mine is very usually responsive, GNAX.net has a good connectivity with America, and they fix any inconvenience *very* quickly.
CPanel, ssh, etc. CentOS on dual-Opteron (they also have dual-Xeon Dell PowerEdge 1850).
You can test the responsiveness of my blog: beranger.org in what happens to be quite bad conditions, as while I'm writing this they have:
load average: 2.80, 2.44, 2.41 Cpu(s): 44.0% us, 2.1% sy, 0.9% ni, 43.0% id, 8.8% wa, 0.1% hi, 1.0% si
Béranger
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