The 'Key Advantages' sidebar lists "Pay As You Go or Monthly Packages". I assumed they haven't yet announced their pay as you go pricing. Did you ask somebody at Softlayer about this?
Even though Slicehost quotes monthly rates, in my experience they prorate charges for partial months used down to some unit even smaller than a day, and always spin up instances in a matter of minutes. So even 'month-to-month' pricing might have a de facto pricing/operations that's closer to hourly than monthly.
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From a little investigation, it's not really an Amazon EC2 competitor. I'd consider it closer to Slicehost and Linode.
It turns out the instances are only offered on a month-to-month deal, not by-the-hour.
The 'Key Advantages' sidebar lists "Pay As You Go or Monthly Packages". I assumed they haven't yet announced their pay as you go pricing. Did you ask somebody at Softlayer about this?
That's what I originally assumed, so I used their sales chat thing.
Apparently the Pay As You Go only refers to the storage and CDN.
Even though Slicehost quotes monthly rates, in my experience they prorate charges for partial months used down to some unit even smaller than a day, and always spin up instances in a matter of minutes. So even 'month-to-month' pricing might have a de facto pricing/operations that's closer to hourly than monthly.
Yes, Softlayer prorates everything.