Hosting

This is an interesting topic to me currently, and thought it might be for some of you, as well.
I currently use a managed hosting plan on a shared server, and I'm using more than my allocated space regularly, so it's time to move on. I need to be able to rapidly make new databases, domains, email addresses, etc and have it all be pretty reliable. Aside from my own site it's not a public facing thing, and despite my enthusiasm for the SEO Checklist I'm not drowning in traffic, so bandwidth isn't a big concern. What are some options?

Shared server, managed
Too little space, ending up to be expensive. Very convenient. Servers are all set up, nice easy to use control panel for requesting new domains, email addresses, databases, etc.

Amazon EC2
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011
Pricing is different. It seems like it offers a lot of bang for the buck, and as long as their servers don't die your content doesn't disappear. Might experiment with it before staking my livelihood on it.

Linode
http://www.linode.com
Stephanie uses this, if I recall correctly. 15gb of space for $30/mnth seems good. You manage it, which isn't ideal to me. Could use a control panel. See:
http://www.web-hosting-top.com/web-hosting/directory.control-panels
http://www.gplhost.com/software-dtc.html
http://www.ehcp.net/modules/news/

Zone.net
http://www.zone.net/
Rich uses them and seems happy with them.
Managed virtual server
$35/mnth 15GB
Negligable price difference from Linode (though RAM and bandwidth on Linode are greater), and it's managed with Clean OS, Webmin or LAMPY.

I'm seriously thinking about using Google Apps to handle email going forward to relieve myself of that headache is possibly get what I've found to be effective spam filtering with no sweat.
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html