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Hourly billed "bare-metal" cloud servers from Softlayer seem to be cheaper still: http://www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer/computing

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and softlayer is at the high end of the market.

Check out incero.com or securedservers.com for some perspective.

also serverbear.com is always great to check for price-performance comparisons, especially taking into account SSD performance.

incero and securedservers don't seem to offer hourly billed dedicated servers. Monthly billed dedicated servers are a different market.

Agreed - and yet thats half the problem; is people aren't using EC2 for just a few hours... they use it all month, and then complain about it being expensive.

I've always been curious about these "less reputable" dedicated/colo providers. SoftLayer seems to have a great reputation, but it's also twice as expensive as, say, Incero or SecuredServers that you just mentioned. Are they reliable business partners?

Yes, in my experience -- but thats just with one-off servers.

I'm not sure how things work if you're a larger client with needs in the dozens of servers.

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