Mike,
Thanks for your advice. Do you have any experience with Hard Hat Hosting's VPS Beginner Plan? We were actually with them from 2006-2007 on the VPS Commerce Plan and were very satisfied, but had to switch to a different host to try to reduce fees at the time. My main concern is will the VPS Beginner Plan support X-Cart's memory requirements.
As far as the Javascript's location, I noticed that X-Cart 4.4.5 now moves JS and CSS to the bottom of the page on its own. In customer/home.tpl lines 53-54, there is:
Code:
{load_defer_code type="js"}
{load_defer_code type="css"}
Thanks again!