[Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> From: greg.rundlett at gmail.com [mailto:greg.rundlett at gmail.com] On Behalf
> Of Greg Rundlett (freephile)
> 
> I find Amazon to be too complex - although I never really took it too far.
 And
> they're not inexpensive either.

Complex in what regard?  I just logged in, clicked on create instance,
answered a couple of questions about which OS I want to run, and voila, I
have a VM instance that is free (for the first year) and $7/mo thereafter,
which is comparably spec'd to the $20 system from linode you mentioned in
the preceding paragraph.  The only complexity I would say I had was...
Aware that certain instance types use persistent storage, and others don't.
So I selected the checkbox for persistent storage.  And the only supported
authentication mechanism is ssh keys, so I can't be clueless about ssh keys
in order to use the system.  

Perhaps when you need to grow out larger than what's included in the default
instance - more cpus ram or disk - perhaps that's complexity you're talking
about?  Or you don't like the variable pricing, prefer simpler flat-rate
pricing?