Host with the Most

I had cause today to look into Rails VPS hosting services.  I came across the Nuby on Rails article with a ton of comments which serve to validate and clarify various points.  More searching turned up similar reviews.  There is even a Rails-specific hosting info site.

Slicehost appears to be the best choice for my needs (a small, mainly static Rails app).  The minimum plan is $20/mo for 256MB RAM, 10GB space, 100GB bandwidth.  This is all way more than I actually need.

I'm trying to understand the hosting options before I get going on my development effort.  I'd like for my dev setup to be as close as possible to my deployed/hosted setup.  I'll be using VMWare on my MacBook Pro for this purpose.  (I'm not going to be fussing with IronRuby for this project.)