[tpearson-raptor]

Timothy Pearson from Raptor here...so if storage becomes a main concern it definitely becomes less expensive to lease a dedicated box vs. a VPS from Integricloud, and that's by design to some extent. The Integricloud architecture is centered more on making sure that your data stays private than competing directly with Amazon etc. that simply don't have the ability to make any assurances beyond general platitudes in that area (for starters, they don't control the firmware on their own machines), and the design (and pricing) reflect this different approach to cloud services.

The dedicated boxes are also unlimited data transfer, and you can put in some fairly large storage arrays inexpensively. We have a bunch of projects that are using dedicated boxes for development work, for example we sponsor Adelie Linux with one, and so far they've been very happy with the service.

[moonchild]

While you're here, can I ask: the integricloud main website says:

> with our fully redundant power systems, uptimes generally exceed 99.999% with overall availability typically at or above 99.9%

Do you have an SLA or other uptime guarantee?

[tpearson-raptor]

Nothing formal, but if the service itself does go down (i.e. your VPS drops and can't be restarted due to a service problem, or connectivity fails, etc.) refunds / service credits would be issued. We really haven't encountered this enough to have a formal policy as of yet -- the redundancies we use are quite good.