As you can probably tell from the recent posts I have moved my host over to a linux VPS, at Slicehost.com. Without sounding to tacky it was built by developers, for developers. No overly complicated control panels it just works. On top of that they have some excellent documentation on there site for helping you setup your box with only the basic Linux knowledge. From the site:
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