I bought a slice on slicehost since I had heard good things.
This morning in 2 hours I have a running mysql and subbversion daemon and have pointed one of my domain names to the sliced host. I used the Fedora 11 image, mainly because I think at work we will be going with that distribution, no other reason.
I learned that yum is a great package manager to use with Fedora.
Here are some links that got me going along the way.
MySQL link:
http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/installing-configuring-mysql-server
Subversion + Apache links:
http://www.technize.com/2008/05/27/how-to-configure-svn-subversion-server-on-fedora-core-with-apache22-under-selinux/
http://www.tonyspencer.com/2007/03/02/setup-a-subversion-server-in-4-minutes/
Setting up DNS on Slicehost:
http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/10/24/creating-dns-records