For small scale projects, you can find affordable (shared) hosting almost anywhere.
But when it comes to VPS and Dedicated servers, I have noticed a strong pricing differences between the USA and northern European countries, especially Germany. The USA options are way more expensive, like 10-fold.
For example, looking at Acquia Developer Cloud hosting (built on Amazon USA)
-4 ECU (2x 64 bit)
-total RAM: 7,5 GB
-500 GB storage
-Up to 10 sites, 6 tickets
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695 USD per month
https://acquia.com/cloud-pricing#hardware=61&storage=116&subscription=12...
For that money (~490 EUR) I can go to Germany's Strato.de and get:
-2x 64 bit, 16 GB RAM each, dual hexa-core (! yes that's 2x 6, each)
-extra 1x 64 bit, 16 GB RAM, quad core
-total RAM: 48 GB RAM
-total storage: 8000 GB (8 terabyte)
-up to 25 sites (domains)
-"unlimited bandwidth"
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2x 199 + 1x 99 EUR = 497 EUR
http://www.strato-pro.de/root_server/dedicated_server/linux.html?sc=1900...
Rackspace would charge me $2,000 - $5,000 for the same, depending on bandwidth usage,
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/
Well as you can see, this is a huge difference...! I know where to host my next project!
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