Also, while we're at it, how much were you financing on that truck? Unless it was more than the cost of the truck, you were paying exorbitant and usurious rates of interest, or you were in a less than five-year loan, I cannot fathom how you'd come to a $650 payment on $25,000 or less in principal, considering I pay less than $470 or so on an original loan amount of $25,200.

--J

Thinking back just a year or two to a comparable situation, I was 23, with a credit score of approximately zero, in a car with a declared value of around (US)$5k (that I owned outright), and I was only paying (US)$400 or so every six months. And that was with comprehensive coverage, too.

You were paying somebody's salary at your insurance agency. You really need to find out why your premiums (premia?) were so high. You might be a victim of identity theft and need to clear your record while you still can.

--J

A2's hardware and pricing appear a bit out-of-date. Consider BlackMesh; it's the company I work for, and we run a tight ship in a tier-4 datacenter with name-brand equipment and massive onsite technical expertise.

In terms of load-balancing, I'd agree with earlier posters that you really don't need any for 1,000 visitors a day. As you scale up, I can't recommend strongly enough the use of a hardware load balancer; we've had excellent luck with those from Kemp Technologies, which incidentally run a version of the well-known open-source load-balancing daemon ldirectord. The load balancer then automatically covers your HA needs in terms of a Web front; depending on what you have going on in the backend, a combination of NFS, DB replication, or other service-specific replication configuration, often alongside a deployment of Heartbeat, will cover your data-persistence needs.

To the OP, or anyone else, feel free to poke me via email if you'd like to discuss options any further. I'm a network engineer, not a sales guy, so prices aren't my strong suit, but we can work together to design a platform that you can then get bid on by a number of hosting providers, us included.

--J

The #1 problem with WiFi in my area is the lack of available channels. Half the problem is the all the unsecured routers still set to SSID "linksys" and on the default channel. So, add in a feature that can connect to each visible network that has a default SSID and admin password and moves its channel to free up a channel for my use.