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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:

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

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?