Well I think it really depends on your needs (and also your provider ;) ).
I've started off with 256 MB RAM on a confixx controlled v-server for 7€ a month, which worked quite well. Now I've upgraded to 512 MB RAM (only 10€ per month) as i used to hit the limit and it's working like a charm. Ok, it's only serving something like 200 unique visitors a day and a few emailaccounts, but I think the value for money is unbeaten.
And the support is also doing a really good job (didn't really expect that for the money :) ).
However if you need more power, a dedicated server will be the only option - really depends.
PS: While tuning apache is a good idea, you might want check out lighttpd, http://www.lighttpd.net/, which should be really nice for v-servers. But others use it as well, for example sourceforge.net
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RE: Only a government would have closing hours for an ONLINE resource!!
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At my university it's common practice to halt servers on which you hand in your assignments; reason: The grading robot needs to sleep from midnight to 6 am.
Maybe they just want to get us used to annoying situations...
Reminds me of my Distributed Systems Lab. The grading robot "slept" from midnight to 6am. After students complained to the lab supervisor, they shortened its sleep to 2am to 6am. Didn't affect its ability to grade the assignments.And of course, "in order to discourage students using the grading robot for debugging", you have to wait thirty minutes before submitting again after failing one (out of around 20) test case.
Oh, and the lab assignments only accounted for 30% of the grade, the other 70% depended on two (closed-book) lab tests, where you had to program on paper.
That Distributed Systems Lab was a WTF in itself...
That's exactly the course I referred to ;-). DSLab was definitely a WTF overall...
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RE: Only a government would have closing hours for an ONLINE resource!!
At my university it's common practice to halt servers on which you hand in your assignments; reason: The grading robot needs to sleep from midnight to 6 am.
Maybe they just want to get us used to annoying situations...