[petercooper]

FWIW, I have all my important stuff at Linode, but I also have a server from Hetzner in Germany. It costs €49 per month (about $60 I think) and it's a Core i7 with 8GB RAM. Their network has proven rock solid and the hardware totally fine in the last 6 months and I only got it because I had so many personal recommendations. I don't know how they can do it but clearly it's at least possible to offer serious power at bargain basement prices.

[joshu]

What's the latency from the US?

[petercooper]

Getting 114ms from it to a Linode in Atlanta, GA. 92ms to a machine in New York. 19ms to a machine in London. Which seems OK given the distance.