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I've just gotten off of HostGator (I love them, but they limit processes, which is bad for me now). I'm on a VPS (unmanaged, $15 a month, 1GB Ram, unlimited data transfer) but I don't really like them.

I want to keep the cost of the servers ~$20~$30/month as I'd like to keep initial costs down while I try to grow. The site uses Python cgi to fetch and parse remote pages to aggregate data, and mySQL to store some of the info (as opposed to fetching it).

I'm new to the hosting thing, but I feel I could handle a server on my own. I'm just wondering what kind of host I should be looking for (shared, semi-dedicated, vps, etc) and how much I should be willing to spend!

thanks!

The site is: http://BlueDevilBooks.com by the way

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How much "work" are you doing on the site per visitor? How many concurrent visitors do you want to be able to scale to, eventually? – Igorek Nov 14 '10 at 3:16

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I love our provider... Linode.com.

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Linode is a VPS provider, i.e. a type of hosting service, not an ISP -- but I agree that they are very good at it. :) – HedgeMage Nov 14 '10 at 4:04
You're right, bad choice of words. :) – Matthew Dorian Nov 14 '10 at 18:03
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At this stage, I would recommend staying with a VPS provider and would recommend Slicehost or Linode from personal experience.

You might want to consider separating the fetching / processing from the serving to users. That way any load on the former won't affect the latter.

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