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With a memory forensics tool, duh. Check out Second Look. In fact, the compromised company has referenced it on their wiki page about the incident.

Steep if you need it 24/7. These kind of offerings are mostly a good deal if you either use them for temporary computations, so you spin up a bunch of machines, do your thing and then close them down again (so you may end up paying for 50 machines for 5 hours which is definitely cheap), or if you are in a web startup that has venture funding with lots of cash to burn and potential day-to-day scaling problems.

Otherwise there are better options, for instance Hetzner that'll offer better hardware for ~50 USD/month (42 EUR ex VAT for a non-virtualized i7 with 16 GB RAM and 3 TB RAID1).

Hetzner seem better than LeaseWeb up to a point: http://www.hetzner.de/en/
LeaseWeb offer 100TB for relatively little, which is great, but Hetzner have better spec servers at 10TB/month. Multiple Hetzner servers might be better choice in *some* cases. Hetzner's servers are bog-standard consumer hardware for the most part, but they've recently added two Xeon offers with ECC RAM to the main range. I've used them for two years for all sorts of things, including bursts of high throughput. It's nice when you have the 1Gbit NIC option :)

That little asterisk next to LeaseWeb's two highest bandwidth options is a bit worrisome - it says "best effort". Hetzner give 10TB with all servers and have the data centre to back it up. Using more than the limit with them puts the speed down to 10Mbit/s, but each TB is 6.90 Euros monthly. That turns out cheaper than the top LeaseWeb server, so spreading 100TB/month across a number of Hetzner servers might turn out to be more reliable than LeaseWeb.

If gaming levels of latency aren't a requirement I'd always recommend European servers anyway. I'm not sure how Hetzner keep the prices so low, but I've heard it's because of the low cost of electricity. I've spent the past week trying to find a better option for me, but I've ended up back at Hetzner. Ordering an EX S4 soon, which will be nice when I'm only used to the old EQ range.

I bought a server from Hetzner and run Zimbra Collaboration Server Open Source Edition on it.

They raised the price to € 19.90 for new clients but that is still a bargain http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq19

Their costs are mostly on bandwidth...

Are you sure about that? I don't know how it's like in America, but in Europe, bandwidth isn't really that expensive. For instance, here at Hetzner you can get 1 extra TB per month for app. 8 USD without any negotiations. That's about 0.16 USD for one 20 GB Blueray movie. I would imagine the royalties to the studios are much larger than that?

These days it's easy to build a simple FLAPS Firebird+ Linux+ Apache+ Php+ SSL style or FUNP Firebird + Ubuntu+Nginx+Php/Python/Rails virtual server

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=ddzwj4jw_112ddwrd52h

You can buy a simple vps and install what you want there (Firebird php , rails ,
django ...)
I give you some options but there are more to choose from
http://www.linode.com/
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserver-produktmatrix/

It's quite easy to install and start on ubuntu for example
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firebird2.5

(i didn't included howto connect and howto secure the server)

I used to host with ThePlanet for my websites. Though their services were pretty stable, they charge so much that I looked for other vendors after a couple of years. Switched this year to Hetzner.de. They provide a dedicated server for 49 EUR that gives me i7-920 quad core, 8 GB of RAM, 2 * 750 GB of disk space and 5 TB of bandwidth per month. Plus they have a great web-based system for remote rescue, reboots, and all services that run on the machine are now available on native IPv6. I haven't had any hiccups so far, and it seems well worth the money.

Their support staff seem to struggle a little bit with English, but their web-based rescue interface leaves little to ask the service staff about.