Lions and Tigers and Dedicated Servers - OH MY!

So I'm officially on the hunt.  After working with my "reseller's" account on my current host for the past 6 or 7 years, I'm ready to make the move to a managed, dedicated server.  I'm still only running about 20 domains off my account, and I'm only pushing about 60% of my current data transfer quota, which I think is 5 GIGS a month.  It seems about time though.

This move is all part of a natural progression to increase customer service.  The dedicated server should increase the overall customer satisfaction with decreased load times and give me a little bit more flexibility in what I want to run on my server.  For instance, I've been thinking for a long time about taking my Google Analytics account offline and running Piwik ( http://piwik.org/ )in its place. However, one of the components that Piwik needs isn't enabled on my server.  In the past, my current host has been great about installing or enabling some component that I need, but I was hesitant to ask for a module to be installed for a none core related project.

Are you currenty working with a company who manages your dedicated server?  What specs and price are you getting?  I'm happy with my current host, and their data center has all the neccesary bells and whistles, like battery backup, generators, redundant hard drive mirroring, being tied to 5 or 6 backbone providers, etc -- but it never hurts to check out the competition to see what is available.  Got a favorite?  I'd love to hear about it.  Even if it just helps support my decision to stay where I am!

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