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http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-servers-versus-amazon-ec2-performance-analysis/ Testing amazon and rackspace instances: kernel compile time and “how much it costs to compile kernel on $instance”, and IO tests using IOzone – in short: rackspace is cheaper/better, about 2x on average across the board. Note about “m1.small” i.e. small ec2 instance – performance sux, and it is actually cheaper to use a more expensive instance, “medium - cpu” or c1.medium.

http://conshell.net/wiki/index.php/Xen_Hosting_Providers list of hosting providers that host XEN (PV) images. /some host custom images/

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