I use Webfaction.

http://www.webfaction.com/services/hosting

It's not a personal vps but you get ssh access and you can run any
webserver you want-- even a Haskell one:

http://wrwills.webfactional.com/2009/10/30/Haskell-on-a-Webfaction-Host

They support Postgres databases too.

It's cheaper than a vps (I'm paying $8.50 a month but you can pay as
little as $5.50), but possibly not as convenient.

-Rob

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Tom Tobin <korpios@korpios.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
>> OK, I guess the unananimous opinion in linode ;). Thanks for the input
>> everyone!
>
> If it helps make your client even more comfortable: not only do I use
> Linode for my personal VPS, but we use them at work to host some
> fairly popular websites.  Our sysadmin absolutely loves them to death;
> he's always raving about how easy our hosting is now since moving
> there.  :-)