Originally Posted by Ron Bennett

Probably a bit late to mention this now ... but have you considered adding some redundancy by having more than one dedicated server?

Ideally, physically located in different data centers (of the same webhost or different; that part is less important) for even better redundancy.

And as counter-intuitive as it may seem, multiple dedicated servers can be more cost effective for high bandwidth sites due to scaling (multiple less powerful web servers will often outperform one huge powerful one), and due to how a minimum amount of bandwidth is often bundled / priced in dedicated plans - it's often the incremental bandwidth overage that runs up the bill.

Anyways, good luck and hope you found the right hosting - if still in doubt, test their support ... contact them at around 3 AM tonight (Sunday night of a holiday weekend - many of the wannabe places will have few, if any working) in their time zone and see what happens.

Ron