1. Yes, its called reserved pricing. You have to enter a 1 year contract. Here's an example for EC2, which is Amazon's VPS offering. I assume other companies ha

1. Yes, its called reserved pricing. You have to enter a 1 year contract. Here's an example for EC2, which is Amazon's VPS offering. I assume other companies have similar systems https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricin... 2. You can chose which type of machine you want to reserve as your servers. Some of them are optimized for memory (good for databases). Some for CPU, etc https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/