<< I have always heard that HE is one of the best. Maybe next year I will get one so I can target customers on the West Coast. >>
Well, they are actually very good - however not the best, best, best. Not really better than Internap or even LayerOne. 😉
However, H.E. is very good. Their prices are extremely good, at 100mbps you are charged $2,500 which is one of the cheapest. They seem to price their bandwidth at CogentCo prices to get lots of clients, and can go even cheaper if you order lots of bulk. However, bulk is bulk. I personally prefer the pricing method with LayerOne though - with H.E. your price also depends on what pipe you're on, with LayerOne; the more bandwidth the cheaper, no matter what pipe whether it be 100mbps or 1,000mbps, fiber, gige or anything.
Gordon, lol, I think everyone knows by now how rubbish FDC are. Yipes and CogentCo isn't always really that bad. I'm even talking with Yipes for bandwidth prices, although I'm going to also do multi-homed with Aleron which'd make it better. FDC are cheap, very cheap, and actually very good if you want a cheap server and want to learn linux and how to admin your server, however so is ServerMatrix with their cheapest server.