I'm in the process of starting my own internet based business and I'm looking for a good recommendation on dedicated hosting. Right now I'm running my alpha version of the site on a shared server and this setup will not work for my actual release (in fact, it barely works for the alpha).
Here are some of my needs:
1) Linux based.
2) Significant storage capacity. (> 100GB)
3) High bandwidth capacity. (> 1TB)
4) Very high uptime. Need a company with history of this.
5) Full onsite support to handle any server problems.
6) Extensibility. If things are successful, I will be needing multiple servers (web servers, application servers, database servers).
7) Good site statistics management.
It would be nice if the hosting company was capable of installing some basic software for me. In particular, I'm using MySQL, Subversion, and running Ruby on Rails.
Obviously, I'm looking for the best value I can find (note that doesn not mean the cheapest service - but highly reliable, good hardware, and a reasonable price).
Thanks in advance for the help.
Matt
PS: I'm excited to have found out about this site. I'm impressed with it so far!