I don't know much about getting hosting, but I would imagine it is expensive. Which server do you run and how many players have you seen on your server at most? Being able to handle a large number of players doesn't always require dedicated hosting. I have seen as much as 85 on mine and that is just running on a PC that I had laying around that is a few years old lol. I imagine if I can get some of the zones running on my main PC, I can probably break 100+ players.
I mention this because I run my server from home and it works just fine. So, maybe you don't actually need dedicated hosting. It is much cheaper and probably somewhat easier to manage from a home PC. The most important things in running a server are Upload Speeds and RAM. On my server right now, I have 1.7GBs of RAM and 1MB upload speed. If you can get upload speeds that fast or faster in your area, you should be able to handle numbers to be in the top 5 or so servers as far as population goes.
Of course, if you were already aware of all of this, I apologize for derailing your thread slightly. I am interested to hear of decent hosting and prices on it.
If you have any questions on getting your home PC tweaked to handle a certain amount, let me know.
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