Virtual Server Vendor Recommendations?

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

I currently serve web pages and email from my home server.  The traffic
seems quite low, but I never check how low, because it never mattered.

Now, I am looking to move this server offsite, preferably in Canada (for
latency/legal reasons (hosting in the US (the land of the Free TM) is
not acceptable)).  I'd rather not spend much money, but I far prefer
full control over the machine, but not necessarily the hardware.  To me
that says renting a Virtual Private Server somewhere.

So, how do I estimate traffic, RAM, CPU usage so I know if I need a fast
machine?

Also, who do you recommend as a vendor of VPSs?

Thanks!
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yours,

William

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