One of my high traffic Wordpress blog got suspended becasue it was using more than 10% system resources. So I'm looking for reliable VPS provider... Dedicated servers are too expensive. Some suggestions...fast....please Thanks
Linode - decent pricing (from $20), excellent customer feedback, and fast servers as seen here: http://journal.uggedal.com/tags/django
Type in burst.net on google. I can't post links, dont have enough posts. They have cheap VPS with great offerings. I have 7 servers from them.
I will suggest Linode... Pretty cheap and good. Godaddy is not bad too (despite what some people say). --dd http://sucuri.net -> Monitoring your Internet Presence
have you asked your host what's causing the server spike? there might be some plugins that causes the problem, putting wordpress caching "on" can prevent your site from hogging the resources as well.
Seems a little mean, even Dreamhost gave me time to fix an issue on a site. Note, my game server on Linode is always making my VPS system use between 7-12% of one host CPU. That's on a 360, the cheapest offering. You could also consider tuning Apache, or dropping it for a lightweight alternative like lighttpd. In addition, MYSQL can be a hog; check out http://blog.mysqltuner.com/ for performance tweaks. There are a lot of VPS hosts out there: if I were you I would stick with the big names. You might get more resources on a smaller host, but you probably will not be able to use them! Stick with godaddy, linode, slicehost, et al.