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It's frustratingly difficult to find a high-storage VPS at an affordable price. This announcement by Linode is a start. But I think the market has a ways to go yet.

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Check out these guys https://backupsy.com - I haven't used them myself, but if all you need is storage, the prices look great. There are coupons floating around for 40-50% off as well.

You can back your way into one at Dreamhost. Their shared hosting plans are unlimited disk/unlimited bandwidth for web-related data. Then add a VPS to that. You still get the same disk/bandwidth allocation. If you get really big, there's probably some throttling, but it works well for me. I have over 500GB of data stored there.

Dreamhost's policy is that your storage space is unlimited only for files related to the sites you're hosting with them. Not to mention, availability of Dreamhost's shared plans is, well, a nightmare. Don't get me wrong, it's still a bargain, but you get what you pay for.

I was in the same situation a few months back and I remember reading about mounting an Amazon S3 Bucket on a VPS. Did you consider that?

I never actually went through with the idea, but it's definitely on my things-to-do-when-bored list!

http://buyvm.net/ - Their storage VMs are pretty good, I only use it for backups tho. I'm not sure if that helps you at all.

I did a comparison of price per GB of cheap VPS hosts recently and BuyVM is the best.

I'm with http://budgetvm.com/ myself because for the same price (as a BuyBM box), you get a ton more RAM and CPU. The problem here is they're running OpenVZ, which among other things, doesn't support certain iptables (firewall) functions.

Also you sacrifice disk space. But for the application I'm running (Riak cluster), memory is important too.

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