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Could do. And I've had offers.
But I like the control that I have (it's not dependant on other people's employment status or position, it's 100% configurable, I can scale and set things up however I want, blah blah blah) and the service that I receive (we're on SliceHost which is a RackSpace subsidiary, the service is sublime).
We also don't have a bog standard setup. To run this on a Plesk or CPanel server would require twice the resources than this stripped down, hardened and optimised Debian server with nothing running that isn't contributing to this site.
And there's the traffic. The figures are nuts, but in the range of 100+GB of bandwidth each month (on this site alone)... which is even more nuts when you look at the source code for each page (optimised to hell and back), add gzip, and then consider that no static item is ever served twice (caching everywhere).
So I'm a control freak for the configuration, and love the stability of it all.
Could it be done cheaper? Absolutely. Would I want to? Not if it threatened a millisecond of performance or risked a minute of downtime, and as I find it hard to ever gain that kind of insight into a web host... I don't move.