Excuse me, but what exactly are you disagreeing with? I said three things: 1) This move by Amazon is good because it will probably force Rackspace, Linode, et

Excuse me, but what exactly are you disagreeing with? I said three things: 1) This move by Amazon is good because it will probably force Rackspace, Linode, et cetera to reevaluate their plans and make better offerings. This doesn't only affect the $20 plan, it affects all the plans. Hell with my requirements I'd be spending $1360 a month in Linode, in which case wouldn't you like paying a Benjamin or two less if you where in a similar position? 2) Anyone that doesn't have any infrastructure in place yet would be a fool not to take advantage of this promotion to help bootstrap their app. Hell if it doesn't work out you saved the equivalent $360 the experiment would have costed you in Linode. 3) That sadly I can't use this promotion because I already have an infrastructure in place consisting of 17 instances and other Amazon services. Where did I suggest anything about eggdrops and IRC servers? So are you implying Linode is not for me because I need 17 servers? Did you even read the comment before trying to refute something I haven't said?