They're pulling the same skeezy trick that one of my local web/email hosting competitors pulls -- and for which I teased them publicly in our latest advertising.

You only get the advertised rate if you pay the full year in advance. This allows them to advertise a "monthly" rate that is actually "$holycow/12" while also advertising "no commitments!"

edit: and, at 613M of RAM ... I'm not sure exactly what someone would plan to do with such an instance of Windows, but it won't be much.

The pricing and specs compared with a dedicated server from Hetzner.de running windows server 2008 web are absolutely mad