On: A Short Rant About Hosting

[joshu]

I wish there was something with the flexibility of AWS (scriptable machines, disk, etc) but for whole machines and networks - no multi-tenancy.

[timf → joshu]

Besides the Softlayer offering already mentioned, check these out too:

http://www.newservers.com/language/en/

http://www.stormondemand.com/servers/baremetal.html

[jeremyw → joshu]

If you can stomach month-long commits, many shops will give you bootp/dhcp visibility in your private vlan, so you can burn/update machines however you like. I managed 140 systems at Softlayer with ~500 lines of provisioning script.

[timf → jeremyw]

Softlayer also has hourly rates for their "Bare Metal Cloud" offering: http://www.softlayer.com/cloudlayer/computing/