New Hosting Needed!

[Crystalion]

told me that the Slashdotting brought a whole cluster to its knees.  No shared hosting company would put up with that

Well, actually, HE.net are high-bandwidth geeks (yes, the owner/founder is a geek, not an MBA or marketing slime) so when his employee AnotherBlackHat replied above saying that they would not disconnect you, but rather charge you for the bandwidth, you can bet they *have* the bandwidth.

Indeed, my personal friend (their R&D guy) had to write a web crawler a couple of years ago, just to find something to pull down enough bandwidth to really exercise the multiple OC3 connections he had available to him.

The cpu load issue on a shared box is the more likely constraint (but then, since they have clients who've been slashdotted, you could discuss that with them).

OTOH I rather like the idea people have proposed (including the HE.net guy!) of your using a business DSL to your home or workplace for a dedicated server (given how cheap the iron is, the monthly DSL cost is the only real factor these days).

Again, good luck.