Quote Originally Posted by 'Vyndree',index.php?page=Thread&postID=145768#post 145768
The problem with a VPS is that, unless set up very strictly -- if you get slashdotted, you're screwing over the rest of the people on your VPS. The impact is bigger, and (given enough complaint) could get your hosting company very angry at you for upsetting the other customers.

With a dedicated server, we're only screwing over ourselves when we get insane bursts of traffic. We are in a little sandbox of happiness.
Well with budget VPS that's definitely true. But the ones I suggested are either cluster based (10000+ machines) or use these huge monolithic servers to handle the load. May or may not be an option for this site, but I'd definitely look at it. I know the grid services were specifically designed for this type of thing. Just trying to save you guys some money