[meroliph]

If it really needs to scale: AWS EC2

For DNS: Dnsmadeeasy.

For low latency content delivery: Akamai

For dirt cheap makeshift content delivery: several servers from 478east

For servers that need lots of RAM(>24GB) on the cheap: webnx

[mrkurt]

Here's a general rule of thumb: If you're paying for Akamai, you're paying too much. :)

[petercooper]

What does this mean? That Akamai commonly provide free services to high profile, high traffic sites that need their levels of throughput? Or..?

[mrkurt]

It really just means Akamai's expensive and you should find someone else to do CDN stuff. :)

[jbyers]

VPS.net resells Akamai at shockingly low prices.

[mrkurt]

Their Wiki says it's Highwinds: http://www.vps.net/wiki/cdn-more-info

[jread]

VPS.net sells both highwinds and Akamai. Akamai is $100 for 1 TB. However, they only offer origin pull, so performance will be slightly degraded versus using their NetStorage.

http://www.vps.net/forum/public-forums/technical-discussions...

[antidaily]

If we're recommending DNS, let me suggest Nettica.

[Skyline]

+1 for http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ . We've been using them for DNS since February 2007.

http://dyn.com/dynect is supposed to be pretty good too.