> If you're looking at this end of the spectrum, just go with a VPS/Cloud system. You'll be paying about the same amount, maybe less. And you get drastically im

> If you're looking at this end of the spectrum, just go with a VPS/Cloud system. You'll be paying about the same amount, maybe less. And you get drastically improved reliability if your provider is using failover and isn't using crap hardware. Of course you roll your own, e.g with Linux VServer and HA (heartbeat/drbd). If Atoms were really low-power (they aren't, 8 W is noise in comparison to the chipset), offerend ECC support and decent mothboards with Intel NICs and IPMI onboard then they would be interesting hosts for virtual server guests. As is, they're reasonable as firewalls (which are typically redundant) and SOHO servers. I hope ARM will deliver something competitive here.