^ An important point. I emailed SoftLayer sales when setting up Alikewise and got a much better price, around $300/mo. This is probably still overpaying for my

^ An important point. I emailed SoftLayer sales when setting up Alikewise and got a much better price, around $300/mo. This is probably still overpaying for my needs, but substantially cheaper than buying via their web interface. Another thing I haven’t done is renegotiate in the last 2 years. Moore’s law and all, I suspect I wouldn’t save $$ but would get more horespower for the same price.