[...] If you're going for a dedicated server you might want to check out hetzner.de. Been using them since march and their prices and uptime are great. Intel i7 2600 quad core, 16GB RAM, 2 x 3TB disk in RAID1 for 49 euros monthly. You can check out the pings for quite a few destinations here: http://fakkelbrigade.eu/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

[...] If you're going for a dedicated server you might want to check out hetzner.de. Been using them since march and their prices and uptime are great. Intel i7 2600 quad core, 16GB RAM, 2 x 3TB disk in RAID1 for 49 euros monthly. You can check out the pings for quite a few destinations here: http://fakkelbrigade.eu/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

http://www.leaseweb.com/en What my teammate and me do, I found someone who rents a server from these guys and pays 30 bucks a month for it. On that server he has 1 dedicated tf2 server, and 1 dedicated l4d2 server. We pay him some money each month to have our dedicated server being run on his server. I ping about 5, sometimes even lower if there are less people on the server ( ultiduo ) and it has one of the best fps, hitreg, and delay I have played on. So perhaps it might be good idea to try to collaborate with some other team(s), buy a server from leaseweb, and then put 2 or 3 dedicated servers on it? 3 teams = 6 + 6 + 6 = 18 players, each team pays 10 euro / month = basically nothing per player... And in return, you get a great server with great reliability.

We use 540, and they're pretty good

[...] heidtec.org is really good. We have been using it for almost 7 months.

I stumbled upon a server by heidtec.org last night, and checked their homepage out of interest. Server seemed to be alright, no lags, good ping, whatever. Does anyone have experience with them? They appear to be 'rather' cheap.