It's really fun reading this post.
Muchos and Tim, you forget that Dynamichosting also offers burstable servers.
About ping times:
Pretty much every civilizised country has a good connection to the US and therefore nobody is falling asleep browsing sites in America. Also, nobody notices any difference between a server in the US having a ping of 250ms and a server in Amsterdam having a ping of 150ms. That's ridiculous.
Besides dedicated servers are the better solution for people who burn more than 150GB a day. You can sit next your server 24/7 and monitor it but what are you going to do if one user decides to test out a new php script which has a *little* bug in it? There'll still be downtime because of this even if you realize this error within 5 minutes. This wouldn't happen on a dedicated server.
Also the point about maintenance isn't true. If you choose your host right you won't notice any difference between dedicated and virtual hosting other than that the server's usually faster (even if you claim that don't put too many domains on a virtual server there IS a difference if there are 10 domains on a server or just YOURS) and more secure.
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