I have been using softlayer network for around 3 years now. They are my preferred choice. I will try others but only a select few come close. I would avoid rackspace. I never had any luck with them. They were good a number of years ago, but they wouldn't be my choice now not even close. Of course nothing is perfect an depends on the actual setup. I had a decent setup in a dallas colo a few years back and that thing never went down. Almost a year strait with 100% uptime no kidding. Everyone talks see more about the planet too, but honestly I think they suck too. Many of the datacenters slap together a cheap piece of junk and plug it into a piss poor network to make money. They need to make money too, but man I would pay a few extra $'s for a halfway decent server with a good connection. Very few can really deliver that. The big hosts use them cheapies because that is how they make their moola. Cheap servers and network = cheap prices and cheap prices to the end customer. It is really worth it for a company like boonex that isn't providing hosting to pay a little more and go with a superior company/datacenter that really is decent rather than a host that basically subcontracts it from one of the cheap datacenters like host for web does. They are not the only ones, most do the same thing. That is how they make the money.