My TV is 2 feet away from my desk, and if I tried to change up and sit on my bed, well, the TV is right in my face. I instead go to downtown Palo Alto and work from there about 2 times a week. The vibe from watching other Stanford Univ students cramming for an exam or procrastinating on their homework is amusing.

If you are on dedicated, I suggest going with Softlayer. I’ve been with them over a year and everything is good (not a single outage). It’s centrally located in Texas and so latency should be alright on either the east or west coast. I paid extra for a 20 GB on the NAS for incremental backups.

Oh, and even if you had the $$$, you still would have a tough time to find good help unless you had funding :) Trust me, 2K for 1 page mock is not in my budget.