Few things: Persistent local storage (hardware raid6 15k rpm disks). Higher performance - fast hardware and access to more cores to burst to. We also use KVM,

Few things: Persistent local storage (hardware raid6 15k rpm disks). Higher performance - fast hardware and access to more cores to burst to. We also use KVM, which is substantially faster than Xen (particularly in 64bit mode). Fast server creation - servers usually built and booted within 30 seconds. You can map Cloud IPs directly to Load Balancers (and more mapping options coming soon!) And as we use KVM, we already support pretty much any OS and any kernel, without any fiddling. FreeBSD works a treat, with no special support required. And we've got loads of ace stuff in the pipeline too, so more to come! Also, all Brightbox customers are eligible for free hugs. We're just plain nicer ;) (full disclosure: I'm a Brightbox bod, obviously!)