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In Feb 2012 I spent some time to look for cheaper alternatives. At the time, I was already spoiled by Rackspace and so Amazon's cloud service lack of usability did not cut it with meThis is still best bang for the buck despite Gen 3 Cloud technologies.
Main criteria,
- 1024GB of memory
- Allow Ubuntu OS Custom Install
- Decent bandwidth 2GB or higher / month
- Allow adding additional IPs
- Console access
- Hypervisor based
- Nice to have ability to do full image backups and restores
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