[marcusr]

Digital Ocean remains very cost effective even if you move up to a $40 a month plan, compared to the AWS m1.small plan - $40 per month vs $47, and you get an SSD based server and 4TB bandwidth included, plus 4GB vs 1.7GB RAM. The smaller Digital Ocean VPSes are great to play around with, but for real work the $40 remain great, even without swap enabled.

[bryanlarsen]

For $44 a month you can get a dedicated Xeon E3 32GB server from OVH in Montreal. http://www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/offers.xml Hertzner in Europe is even cheaper.

[jedrek]

OVH's support vs DO's is incomparable. The one time I set up a dedicated server with them, I waited 38 days for it to get going and then the version of Linux on there was so bad I gave up after two weeks of trying to get it sane.