How does this compare to DigitalOcean, which is about a quarter of the price of this? ($19+ vs $5), for similar specs?
A few things to consider when hosting with us:
1) We only use enterprise grade hardware currently from Dell and all network related devices are from Cisco (so high performance is guaranteed through out the device lifecycle in SSDs for example).
2) We take redundancy very seriously. All of our stack is redundant from routers, switches to the software level - basically. Performance is nothing without control meaning your data is hosted always on two separate storage backends, both RAID5 secured. In addition to this, you can naturally take backups which are hosted on a different physical machine.
3) Control: we have Android and iOS apps to control your servers when not in front of your computer. You can create the most basic server tasks while on the go. In addition to the mobile apps, our API enables more demanding solutions to be put in place by clients. We also use our own API for our Control Panel, so it is always up to date with the latest additions.
4) 100% SLA: as we have built everything by ourselves we can guarantee extreme availability (and also taking into account our redundancy).
Just to name a few.
really? what if the network goes down?
As for network connections, we have two providers of internet connections always available for such cases. One goes down, the other one takes over. We take redundancy very seriously.
100% SLA means that we guarantee that the services will be available 100% of the time, OR we give 50x compensation for the downtime. Basically if the servers are down/unreachable for 1 hour - we credit your account with 50 hours worth of credit.