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I'm curious: What do you need the disk space for? Is it something that can be farmed out to say, Amazon S3?

Currently, I've got a 60GB database of indexed n-grams, for an art project / data vis. I've also got ~20GB of relational data running a Latin website. I like manipulating and visualizing lots of data, so it'd be better not to denormalize it too early.

I found your Latin project through your profile. That's very cool—I also did the vaunted CompSci/Classics combo and I've considered doing something like this before. It's nice to see that something is already out there.

To be more on topic, I've found Linode to be pretty excellent along with everybody else. If your relational data happens to be in MySQL, Dreamhost has an enormous quota. Not the best for performance but I assume your data set is static, aside from user accounts.

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