Can anyone recommend a VPS/dedicated provider?

[Silvershock]

I had a server back home in the UK that ran from my house. I had to dismantle it and give the parts away when I moved. Now I'm without a server to run my personal work/projects from and it's making me twitch. Can anyone recommend a provider for a Linux machine I can have SSH access to and do with as I please? Doesn't necessarily need a lot of power - I'm thinking of going VPS to get some PHP projects back off the ground initially and bring a website back online, then potentially upgrade to a dedicated server later for Java stuff (and perhaps the odd game server ;) ).

Preferred OS is Ubuntu Server, but that's not essential - I have experience with Red Hat and Debian.

Recommendations appreciated. TIA!

[Sasha]

Linode and Rackspace seem to have been the two major players when I was looking for one a few years ago.

For $19.99/mo at Linode, you can get 512MB RAM, 2TB transfer (nearly unlimited speeds) and 24GBs of very fast harddrive.

(All root access, including online virtual shell for emergency access, and all your listed OSs updated constantly.)

They had 200GB tranfer on that plan before, they give out so many free upgrades while they grow!

Tigerface.

[Selkit]

The provider Loial's running ottersoft.ca off of, and that I'm running the household Mooncruft server on is $40 a month, give or take, but damned if I can recall who with; Loial would know. 8 gigs of memory, 2 cores, and 5 terabytes of monthly transfer @ 100 mbit, throttled to 10 after the limit's exceeded. Unsure what its drivespace cap is.

[Silvershock]

Thanks for the input, guys. I've had great business dealings with Rackspace, but for a personal account they're a bit on the expensive side. Linode look pretty good, and I'm hearing good things about them, but I'm trying to keep my server outside of the UK, and especially the US - basically the two places Linode host from. (I'm not doing anything illegal, but the server will be hosting source code among other things, and I really don't like some of the draconian snooping laws both countries have implemented.)

[Silvershock]

For reference, I went with FullHost.com in the end. $20 a month for a basic VPS, and it was three minutes from hitting the order button to the VPS being ready for use. Been good so far.