This can be a real issue.

The customer looking for real cheap hosting or reseller plans doesn't have root access and (usually-hopefully) has a company backing them upm with security and stability.

The ways you can screwup a VPS (with root access) is pretty limitless... Unless you know what you are doing be sure you find someone who can help you at less than $30 a ticket or it gets to be a REAL expensive VPS>>>

Check out lowendbox.com

They always have VPS offers really cheap there.

ThrustVPS aka DamnVPS has nice price, i got a windows vps from them before, their service is great but their nodes keep crashing in that period due to their Memory problem, other than that their customer service is alright.

Cheap is isnt always good, But try Urgentvps. They have DDoS protection too.

Many folks think about VPS just they do for Shared Hosting. And a very few ask questions about the virtualization technique used to create the virtual instance. Fellow hosts know that there is a big difference between virtualization technologies and that the performance of the VM's/VPS depends very much of the virtualization approach.

One more thing. I don't think that we should be discussing pricing about VPS under $10 - $12 per month and even those would cover the cost of a very basic, low resource virtual instance.

Cheap VPS wont be any good for you.. as they would be overstuffed VPS servers on every node leading to downtime. While thinking of VPS you think about reliability so I will suggest don't compromise on cost.

You can find great support, resources and reliability at about $10pm but I think less than that is going to be a little too 'cheap'

You can take a look on semoweb.com , they have few servers in Florida and Texas at very low cost.