All:Thank you for your excellent suggestions, and thoughts about local hosting companies. The main reason I wanted a local company was to "keep the money local" as that is part of the Vermont ethic. That being said, it is very clearly an economy of scale problem. Virtualization goes a long way towards reducing that scale issue, I must say.
It appears that slicehost is at the top of the heap here. (I really love that I can choose my distro!)
Thanks again Vaguers! have a day.yad jdpf
