my advice would be to go with
DigitalOcean
- SSD drives BLAZING FAST!!!!
- Lots of ram and fast CPU for le$$
- 1TB of bandwidth
- cheap backups
- fast and seamless upgrades
- instant activation/provisioning
- can buy install
cPanel/WHM yourself for easier management (FREE INSTALL)
- if you need any help - feel free to contact me at celebempire{at}gmail(dot)com
they use SSD drives and sites are really FAST
(contact me and I can show you some examples)
I run some pretty busy sites there... so even if you plan to take dedicated - get it with SSD. It's amazing performance boost...
here is one useful link to...
http://ewan.im/900/10-million-hits-a...ng-a-15-server