Smashing Magazine carries an interesting article called “9 Steps To A Happy Relationship With Your Hosting Provider“. Not quite related to VPS per se, but the principles hold – Don’t choose based on price alone, check their uptime, reputation, etc.

Always take your time to choose a good host. Once you have a number of sites and email accounts running on one, its really not that simple to migrate as you have to coordinate many issues such as database and scripting language versions, email configurations and that dreaded period in between DNS propagation…