[koide]

Note that if you can get Rackspace or whomever to donate the hardware/bandwidth, you can use less than 7k/month to hire a very competent admin to solve the administrative issues, which would probably lead to better service for everybody.

[dr_ick]

On that note, you might check out the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. They host many projects: http://osuosl.org/communities