Re: What is the best dedicated econmic hosting for MU?
Don’t plan a site move unless you have to; select a host that you will be able to work with for a while.
Important aspects to hosting, fast turn around on ticket requests to support desk, helpful support desk!.
If you are not hugely confident in your abilities to manage a dedicated server (not as easy as one might think!) opt for managed server or semi managed.
The costs you quoted sound high, and personally I wouldn’t choose the two you mention, cloud hosting is a viable approach, companies such as Media Temple offer good entry level VDS packages which can be expanded when required, they also have a strong user/support forum, these can be immensely useful for asking questions and generally gaining a bit of knowledge.
There is a group here that was setup to start to collate info on hosts I would check that group out and see what others are using and recommending.
