I went all out and bought the Linux Developer package. I have to agree that upload speeds are ridiculously slow, but there's not much one can do about that.
One thing I have an unrelated question, though. Does anyone know any PHP coding? Specifically, integrating the MySQL user tables between PHP-Fusion and IPB, or any other CMS and IPB. I'm not good at creating a site from scratch, even though that's probably my best bet. I've found a package on a couple sites which supposedly does this, but I always get the same error. You can try registering here, then log in from the side panel.
http://www.bedfordrobotics.org