Ok, I slept several nights with this data in mind. It's not really the most important fact to get the cheapest one. In case of failure we really have a big problem so the server should be incredible good. Not such an old PC which worked in an dusty office and got retired in a serverfarm. 2 Weeks ago such a PC lost his life after erasing all my data - . . Obviously it's normal to get above the magic $100 size. Ok, who cares if this server won't break down and we can use it and be happy.

Next big problem: Westcoast and Eastcoast. Sizes are bigger than here in small Germany. If you get a server in Frankfurt (in the middle of Germany if shown on an Internet map, not a regular one), you are happy with Germany. But latency in the whole USA seems to be higher, so maybe a server for SIP-Services aka Voice over IP isn't enough in Chicago, I guess. You have to put one in, say, Washington and Palo Alto, right? Any tests for Voice over IP or any comments for the need of two servers for east and west?

regards
Rolf

P.S.:
>I have my server with Rackspace. The pricing is obscene ($225/mo) but the service is spectacular..
Just had a nice chat with this company. We'll figure out, stability is more important than just price but it has to compete with others.