Rackspace has very good support, good backend, good connections and
nicely scaling cloud based virtual servers. I got this offer from
Thufir:
Hi Sirius,
Check out www.citrusdesignstudio.com. You will see through the portfolio that I am a real business with many clients.
That is my business that I provide managed hosting through. I also do unmanaged VPSes.
Normally I would charge $15/mo for 512MB. I will do it for $10/mo for you.
To see my pricing, go to www.linnode.com. I match everything they have except their great panel — you have to email or call my people.
I provide VPS services normally for 3/4ths the posted cost on linnode.com. (Rackspace is even more expensive.)
I will do it for 1/2 of linnode’s price for you.
It scales linerally just like linnodes, so for 2048 MB of memory, I would charge $40, etc.
Later!
That would be worth considering, if they have good datacenters and
connections. $10 / month is about $20 less than what Rackspace costs.
On the other hand, Rackspace prices are no problem if the donation is
to arrive.
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.