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document updated 21 years ago, on Jun 2, 2005

RedwoodVirtual
- $0 setup, $10 monthly for 64MB RAM (uber-cheap compared to others)
- $0 setup, $20 monthly for 128MB RAM (HALF as cheap as Linode, as well-loved as Linode is compared to redwoodvirtual)
- payment only through paypal
- no automated system setup (??)... changing distros requires a support ticket (?? I would have thought this would allow them to save money long-term??)
- three varieties of debian (with a local pkg mirror to boot)
- takes a minimum of four hours to set up, due to Paypal restrictions (though in practice it seems to be much longer than this)
Linode
- good amount of automated setup/control (more
- lots of distros
- Visa/Mastercard/Amex
- generally a very capable staff, very user-friendly stuff here. Also they have reasonably thorough announcements of downtime (which is lightyears ahead of some providers)
  - they can control the UML from the outside (reboot, manage partitions, boot different kernels...)
  - they can see the CPU usage for the entire machine they're on
  - they can set the size of the swap partition (which apparently really helps sometimes)
  - no user-compiled kernels though (for good reason)
- they have an IRC channel that folks in the forums seem to talk about a lot