Ask HN: any hosting companies offering microservers?

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It would be great to be able to rent a microserver, ideally with an SSD - is such a configuration even possible at the moment? If yes, does anyone know of a hosting company that offers them?

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Please define microserver.

Amazon offers virtual servers ranging from very small, to very powerful: http://aws.amazon.com/en/ec2/

I'm wanting to rent a node on a microserver:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/unix_linux/2294...

http://gigaom.com/cloud/with-sales-booming-dell-sees-a-micro...

Does it really matter what hardware it's running on? From your point of a view one of these nodes and a VPS would look and function the same, right?

Ahh, did not know that microserver is a real product, i thought you need a very "unpowerful" server :)

Some months ago, a member here mentioned a $40/month atom-based server offer that seemed to please them.

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Hmm. I didn't recall it being in this context, but maybe this is it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2429947

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