Imagine being able to provision a server in minutes or upgrade a server automatically. To bring servers up and down as needed. This is the idea behind Cloud Servers. Totally customizable, each Cloud Server gives you full root access to your Linux distribution of your choice. Your price depends on how large a server you buy.

Based on Xen Virtualization technology, Cloud Servers brings the power of the cloud to the traditional server hosting based model. Just like a dedicated server, your Cloud Server provides total flexibility for you to run anything you want from a Java website to a Ruby on Rails application.

We bill hourly because it allows us to cater to both your usual 24x7 server customer and also to the developer who may only need a server for a couple of days. For those who need the server for a couple of days only, they pay for the time the server is deployed, based on number of hours.

We show the monthly charge just for the clients who keep their servers running for an entire month. This makes it easier for those to translate what the hourly cost would come out too in terms of a monthly equivalent.

Currently the server would either be running or you would have to delete it altogether. There is no "suspension" mode where you are not charged while not receiving traffic to the server.

With our Cloud Servers you can deploy one in a few minutes vs. waiting for a physical server deployment. You can also resize the plan and bring up multiple Cloud Servers quickly and easily for much less money. Dedicated servers usually involve contracts and setup fees while they take time to alter the RAM, etc.

Short answer, no. Cloud Servers can be resized to a different plan through our control panel, all the way up to 15.5 GB of RAM. Most common VPS offerings only offer the equivalent of 128MB up to 512MB RAM at most. With most VPS offerings, you are not guaranteed the resources that you are paying for, which means other customers could be infringing on your allotment. We not only guarantee you will have the resources you are paying for when you need them, but you can also burst while additional resources are available.

Yes, you will get a private IP for each Cloud Server that offers free bandwidth between them.

You can login to the control panel and "resize" the server. It usually takes a few minutes, depending on the amount of data you have stored. If the resources you need are not available in that server, it will migrate all your data, including operating system and IP address, to another server in our environment.

Cloud Server host machines have dual quad core processors. Each Cloud Server is assigned four virtual cores and the amount of CPU cycles allocated to these cores is weighted based on the size of the Cloud Server. For example a 4G Cloud Server will have twice the weight of a 2G Cloud Server. In addition to these guaranteed minimum CPU cycles all Cloud Servers are capable of CPU bursting which allows them to utilize excess CPU cycles that are available on the host machine.

Cloud files is not block level storage, so it cannot be mounted. Customers do use cloud files to offload static files, such as media files for example. Typically media files do not change and will not need to be written to as a database would. At this time, you would have to upgrade the RAM in order to get more storage and vice versa.

Cloud Files is not block level storage, so it cannot be mounted. Customers do use Cloud Files to offload static files, such as media files for example. Typically media files do not change and will not need to be written to as a database would.

We are working on this, however, right now you would have to pick from our Linux distributions and would not be able to export an image.

We currently have Cloud Servers in the US only, we are hoping to be in the UK in the first half of 2010.

Cloud Servers for Windows is billed hourly and all pricing can be found here.