My favorite host is prgmr.com. They have plans which fit even the smallest budget. The support is friendly and competent. You have access to an out-of-band SSH-based console and rescue image, so you can do arbitrary command-line maintenance stuff.
You can install whatever version of whatever distro you want. You can upgrade on your own schedule. You can even do more exotic things like install a custom kernel or even BSD (anything with Xen guest patches will work). You can use LVM.
The best part is that they give you tools to fix things yourself. You don't have to use some half-baked web UI whose creator didn't envision your use case. You don't have to file a support ticket and wait for the staff to get back to you for most maintenance tasks; you can just reboot in rescue mode and do it yourself.
> VPS control panels
I've worked with a few different hosts, and I've never found a web-based server management UI that isn't slow, buggy and generally half-baked.
You can install whatever version of whatever distro you want. You can upgrade on your own schedule. You can even do more exotic things like install a custom kernel or even BSD (anything with Xen guest patches will work). You can use LVM.
The best part is that they give you tools to fix things yourself. You don't have to use some half-baked web UI whose creator didn't envision your use case. You don't have to file a support ticket and wait for the staff to get back to you for most maintenance tasks; you can just reboot in rescue mode and do it yourself.
> VPS control panels
I've worked with a few different hosts, and I've never found a web-based server management UI that isn't slow, buggy and generally half-baked.