Slicehost is good.  They have awesome tutorials that show you how to set up a 
web server step-by-step, including iptables, etc.

Jeremy

On Monday 15 September 2008 2:29:20 pm Tony Yarusso wrote:
> I've heard good things about both Linode (http://www.linode.com/) and
> Slicehost (http://www.slicehost.com/), and briefly used a friend's
> Linode account for some Supybot instances without issues.