I originally used Rackspace for cloud hosting since 2010 and have had absolutely no issues. The services is easy use and rock solid with many advanced features. But then again it is a premium service.
As recently looked In Feb 2012 I spent some time to look for cheaper alternatives.
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- Allows full OS install from scratch!
- Console has bandwidth graph.
Some cons found so far,
- No self-serve image backup and restore ability though they show a picture of the backup icon http://www.vservercenter.com/kvm-control-panel (contact support, . You must contact support and they will sell you cloud space and you can call them to do the backup for you... however, they will have to call every time for manual backups. When I spoke to the support rep he said they would look into this in the future).
- No DNS Servers (not a big con, most domain registrars provide this).
Virtualization Technologies
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