I would LOVE to upgrade my linux box (667MHz, 128 MB Ram -- I think its a PIII), but I'd have to see if what you have could actually be used in this archaic thing
Excuse me? I was fine with the part where he stated his opinion (was fine with the whole thing actually), this particular passage just seemed a little shortsighted to me. Instead of "mean" would you have preferred I said "arrogant and condescending"? Because that carries a harsher connotation than I had intended.
VPS and dedicated aren't their core businesses, as it says on the page. Their model is set up primarily for shared hosting, which only has a setup fee for people going month to month with their plans. I personally paid $20 in October for an entire year.
The writeup for our design project last spring was around pages, which included several pages of just calculations I did IB Compsci HL in high school and the internal !@#$%^&*essment for that was 120 Moral of the story is, it just gets worse.