Awesome news, still find the service provides more than other UK/EU providers. (I don't use US providers personally mostly because of the added ping times.)
Having things like the cloud firewall & being able to migrate an IP from one server to another _instantly_ just makes life so much easier. Said services being cheaper is only going to make my wallet happier :-)
Cheaper, better, waaaay more flexible, entirely UK based (this might be a good/bad thing depending on where you are)
Ok and they use KVM instead of Xen with virtio drivers.
Paper about their systems: http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Design...
What I'm interested in though is KVM now generally considered better than Xen? When I last looked into it a few years ago, there wasn't much in it and KVM had some key disadvantages. Is KVM now distinctly better than Xen as I'm admittedly inferring from your comparison?
Bytemark do indeed have more granular server specs, but Brightbox have snapshots, load balancing, distributed firewall, cloud ips, multiple zones (in geographically separate datacenters), ec2 compatibility.
Flexibility means different things to different users.
Can either offer a service where you can create a new server setup with a RoR / Db setup from an image though?
I mostly use Heroku until I have users these days, but I do think there's maybe a trick in offering mirroring of the heroku functionality from the cmd line :)
Keep up the great work.
