Softlayer, along with Rackspace, are expensive providers. The price will be similar to EC2 (but the raw performance of the CPUs and hard disks will be much bett

Softlayer, along with Rackspace, are expensive providers. The price will be similar to EC2 (but the raw performance of the CPUs and hard disks will be much better). Hetzner and OVH provide the starkest contrast when it comes to price. They are also pretty well respected. There's a million other choices in between. webhostingtalk.com is the best place to get more info..but I can give you names that have been around for a long time and tend to be liked by customers: webnx, singlehop, 100tb (softlayer reseller), reliablesite.net, hivelocity, netdepot. The list goes on and on, but if you want to see price differences, check them out.