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A few reasons that I'm aware of: 1. The blade system we purchased used AMD. I don't know whether there was an Intel option at the time. 2. The cpu density was pretty awesome (1024 cores in 8u of rack space is great for scale). 3. Piledriver core was released after we purchased our gear...

Thanks, buffalooed. I once worked for a small hosting company that rebranded a fancy VPS system as "cloud". I feel indirectly responsible for that, so I now try to make up for it by educating others on what "cloud" really is :-) For the SAN itself, it's actually 10Gbit. But given that it is...

Hey giant_crab, I'm really sorry to hear that you had a bad experience. I work for Internap and just wanted to jump in on this thread and provide a little info. Buffalooed raises a good point: we do use a SAN-backed volume storage for our public cloud offering. Most VPS services (which are...