Trying to find the best hosting for my needs.

Caporegime
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So after 5 years of use, my current hosts have deemed my website in breach of the T&Cs due to it mainly acting as a file server.

My deal is: £6 a month, 500GB storage, unlimited bandwidth.
My usage: 22GB storage, 150GB a month bandwidth.

They say this is no good with a shared server, and I would need to move to a dedicated server to keep it, and prices start at £40 a month!

So now I am looking for something that meets my needs and pricing.

£10 a month is the limit as this is a personal website, I can get my storage under 20GB (a large chunk is currently just junk files I've not deleted).

My preferred choice is a cloud server here:
http://www.cloudnext.com/vds/

20GB storage, 512MB RAM, £10 a month, unmetered bandwidth.

Next best is:
http://www.rapidswitch.com/virtualservers.aspx

15GB storage, 384MB RAM, £8 a month, 150GB bandwidth.


My site is almost exclusively acting as a file server, with roughly 6GB traffic per day. Would the above specs be sufficient?

Any other companies I might have missed?

Any help is greatly appreciated! :)
 
I don't deny that (I didn't read the T&Cs to that detail), just find it funny that they have only noticed after 5 years.

I know cheap is cheap, but it isn't a business and as such not critical to have 100% uptime and really fast download speeds.

My current hosts are based in Texas, and the 150kb/s download is fine in my opinion.

Also looking at the VDS Pro package at http://www.register1.net/pricelist.php, but the 10GB storage and massive fees for additional space aren't ideal.
 
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