right now, my system is not designed to be easy for people who don't have *NIX experience. (I do have some neat features for those who do, like pvgrub and console access)

I'm working on it, but yeah, if you need a easy control panel to quickly re-image your system or things like that, I don't yet have those things, and yeah, for some people, getting those things is unquestionably worth the price difference between my competitors and I.

But for people who do have more UNIX/Linux experience, I think my system has some advantages that I will be careful to keep as I try to make easier interfaces. I give you a rescue disk that lets you boot your vps even if you break your boot config. I give you a ssh public-key based out of band console and rebooter. I let you run whatever kernel you want (I have a few customers running NetBSD, and I have some experimental OpenSolaris domains)