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What? No comments. This is cool -- but why would I do it instead of some kind of VPS?

I currently host on an VPS and have been considering a switch to an Atom based server. Some of the reasons for me:

* With VPS systems you generally have to run one of their kernels, or at least Linux. Very few BSD VPS sites and none allow me to run OpenBSD, which is what I would like.

* The low cost Atom systems give you much more ram and hard disk than the VPS sites for comparable cost. In the $30 range a VPS will give about 512M of ram and 10-20G of hard disk space. Most of the Atom/low cost dedicated hosts are roughly the same cost and give 2-3G of ram and 60-100G of drive space. (I hadn't seen SSD's used before)

It's difficult to compare VPSes and el cheapo dedicated servers by specs alone because VPS hosts usually use server processors, ECC, and RAID while a $30 dedicated server is a POS. If that's what you want, fine, but everyone should understand upfront that they're not the same.

Maximum available RAM seems to be limited to 2G on 945 series chipsets that are used with many Atoms.

Just clarifying.

That's right. But on nVidia ION platform limit is 4Gb.

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