Ok, probably not. However, our cost-effectiveness is difficult to rival
Some of the areas where we dominate the compeition are: We operate and maintain our own hardware. Servers, routers, and switches - we own it all. When something goes haywire, we are working on the problem and not creating a support ticket with our vendor (take that, 89,229 web hosting companies out there!). Read more about how we manage our own hardware [here]. We own our own IP addresses and manage an independent network. Many web hosting firms lease a 99$ server at a massive datacenter and resell services using it. Ok, there isn't anything wrong with this, but it could be a whole lot better. What happens if that server fails to boot? Which company is working on the problem and which company really cares about a quick and complete recovery? If these are two different companies, the end user suffers. Examine the mythical creature known as the 99.999% SLA. How can one company really reach that level of uptime when they have no control over 99% of the reliant infrastructure to support that server? Read more about how RapidVPS manages it own network [here]. We maintain and develop our own Virtualization Kernel Code. Ok, so we are in control of the network, the hardware, but what about the software? Virtualization is the cornerstone of our company. Having started out with Virtuozzo 2.4 a few years ago, we quickly realized how excellent this concept to hosting servers can be. However, the closed source nature of Vituozzo always plauged us because we could not compile our own drivers, troubleshoot kernel panics, or gain a complete software-level understanding of what is going on in a production machine. The answer quickly presented itself when an open-source virtualization package was released. OpenVZ affords us an excellent framework for kernel-level vitualization, with an open source license. Due to this, we are able to modify and experiment, and offer fairly-distributed and regulated system resources to our clients. This technology was developed in house and no other hosting company has this capability to date! Read more about our Kernel [here]. RapidVPS automate's everything possible. For example- Tired of filing a support ticket with your host to get a PTR set? Because we own our own IPs and run our own network, we do not rely on a vendor to perform such updates. Cpanel license expired? Don't keep your clients down for hours while waiting on a host to relicense it! With our system, you can log into our website and administer many features of your account. Anything that is predictable and repetitive, we have streamlined in our system, allowing you to make changes without contacting us and in an automated fashion. We will continue to add more features and stremline our system, the end result being faster service to our customers and less work for us! We employ Linux geeks who know more about linux servers than Linus himself! (ok, that may be an exaggeration, but they are good). And if you know more, you won't need our support :-) We hand pick our support staff from the most qualified linux admins around and train them to be experts in our technologies. Apache modules, strace, tcpdump, tcp theory, OSI layers, expertise in every linux distribution, and a firm grasp over web protocols are only some of the broad topics our staff must excel in. Further, we push our staff to become more experienced every day. You can count on us to keep your server running healthy and your applications performing well. Read more about our Support package [here]