Quote Originally Posted by Bret View Post
I would definitely look into a VPS host that offers a clear upgrade path, there are a lot of companies out there that can offer you anything from a small 256/384mb VPS all the way up to semi-dedicated 4.5/5GB VPS services, on top of that, many will also be able to get you on to a dedicated server should you outgrow their biggest packages - there really is a huge range of options out there these days.

I presume you're looking for something European based, did you have a specific location in mind?
Well as noted, I don't want any dedicated servers. Also I don't want a simple VPS which is shared on one dedicated server. I want a VPS which is part of a cluster system / cloud architecture. This way it's possible to have a really powerful VPS with 6gb RAM and 10ghz cpu power like available on vps.net. It's just more comfortable. In the past I had often downtimes when a drive died in the raid - most likely this can't happen with a cloud-based VPS. I don't want to mess around with such problems anymore.

Quote Originally Posted by SplitIce View Post
You could throw a reverse proxy in front of it and have the backend as some scaleable cloud architecture.
That's interesting. Still I would rely on a 3rd party service. Means if the proxy is down (ddos, hardware failure, whatever), I'm down as well. For "real biz" where big money is involved (like filestube) this is obviously no choice.