[deanhills]

Yea, there is a lot of concurrence between small companies and big companies, but I think just to try it first.

For me even a bigger issue is specialist admin who are willing to work long hours for free to help with setting up the VPSs, suspending them, dealing with support issues and liaising with the sponsors - like there's hard work involved here.  Admin can be found for a few months when they're enthusiastic, but may start to lose interest, or get disheartened for various issues - particularly if the business is not their own.  In the nature of the free vps posts for hosting, more often than not members don't deliver on the posts, sponsors may withdraw or add new VPSs, there are new members joining all of the time so there is a big turnover in number of VPSs that have to be set up or suspended all of the time.  Also there is lots that can go wrong with a VPS necessitating skilled Admin to be around to look after those inquiries and fix the problems with the sponsors.  You need to have staff who are willing and able to help you over a long period of time.  This was one of the big reasons of the failure of the providers xdude mentioned.  Not enough specialist admin hands to provide support on a consistently long term basis.