Links, please. I believe that rackspace servers are cheaper/more powerful per box, but an order of magnitude on both sides is absurd. What you are claiming is

Links, please. I believe that rackspace servers are cheaper/more powerful per box, but an order of magnitude on both sides is absurd. What you are claiming is that $100/month on AWS would cost $1-2/month on SoftLayer. That's just not credible to me without a citation.