Don't go with SoftLayer cloud. I had an instance and it was super slow. Lagged via SSH, HTTP, everything. Tried all kinds of things with their support who alway

Don't go with SoftLayer cloud. I had an instance and it was super slow. Lagged via SSH, HTTP, everything. Tried all kinds of things with their support who always pushed it back on my optimization. I moved out to a dedicated server (with softlayer, very happy with it) and killed the instance. Restored the backup to a new instance and suddenly everything was speedy.