I’ve been using for ruby on rails hosting/development and subversion hosting for over 6 months now (before they had a waiting list).

Quad processor machines, RAID1 drives, Tier-1 bandwidth and root access. Managed with a customized Xen VPS backend to ensure that your resources are protected and guaranteed.

What makes them so popular they have this wait that they continue to battle with?

Obviously the speed, but also:

• Scalability - bring up as many new slices as needed instantly (well a few minutes for the drive to be imaged) or add more storage space to an existing slice
• Distro choice (gentoo, ubuntu, debian, centos, fedora)
• Full root access
• Live backups on a daily and weekly schedule of the running instance of your slice
• Take snapshots at any time of a running instance (very nice for after you get a slice configured)
• Uhhh speed again (they do not and will not overbook their resources)
• Price (you can’t beat 20 bucks a month for VPS)

If your not up to par with Linux administration I wouldn’t recommend this as you’ll need to get your box up and running from scratch.

They’ve also just added DNS management to their custom rails admin section, so I can cancel my EveryDNS account. Which provided excellent DNS service by the way and for free!

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