Sux. Still, as you mentioned it is pretty reliable and it will be hard to find something better in that price range. I've heard a lot of good things about this place lately but never used them so have no clue if good or not. http://www.dreamhost.com/servers/vps/
Thanks. Or maybe I should redo the whole server to handle reboots gracefully (erm... at all 
). I'm surprised it even works as is TBH. 
So we still think transactions will have a reasonable chance of being minted in 90 days? If so - that voids all of my concerns above. 
Well, it the short/mid-term, yes. No clue if it will hold long-term. But even then, this aspect can be changed without a hard-fork if most of the nodes will be honest (at least short-term ) by increasing the minimum amount of YAC required for PoS and bumping the coin split threshold up a little - thus decreasing the number of PoS blocks required by a single address to get interest on all of its coins.I thought if the update prevented two POS blocks from being being consecutive, this would reduce the number of POS blocks to 720 per day. With less POS blocks, I was concerned that our transactions may sit for months (or years) before having a chance of being minted. Transactions would quickly hit their coin-age cap (90 days) and only a static few (~720) transactions would be minted each day. I have this issue with PPC - I have several transactions that haven't been minted in over a year and they are no longer gaining coin-age. They are all reasonably sized and have hundreds of coin-years in age. Never the less, they aren't minting - making them less appealing to hang on to (not to mention the full year I've wasted holding on to them). I just wanted to make sure we didn't introduce a bottleneck like this to YAC.
I've rewritten the code to actually allow consecutive PoS blocks, but only give non-zero trust to the first one. Also, if my math is correct, YAC is supposed to have 144 PoS blocks/day (10 minute interval), not 720.