The thing is that as you add features and need things such as unmanaged access and SSH capabilities, the price starts rising REAL FAST.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if hosting for this site cost Brett $500-600 a month because of the bandwith and hardware requirements of the site. I host a few sites that get about 400,000 pageviews a month (probably less than 1/20th of VGC) and that runs me a little over $50 a month.
Not a load of money considering the traffic but hardly cheap.

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