When comparing RamNode vs Microsoft Azure, the Slant community recommends RamNode for most people. In the question“What are the best VPS providers?” RamNode is ranked 5th while Microsoft Azure is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose RamNode is:
Ramnode is a very cheap VPS provider. With its cheapest plan being only $15/yr for 128MB of RAM. Which is not much but for a small website not expecting a lot of traffic is pretty good. Plus, not many other VPS providers offer this kind of option. There is CPanel shared hosting for $4/mo and a $10 VPS will get you twice the resources as most competitors.
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Pros
Pro Cheap
Ramnode is a very cheap VPS provider. With its cheapest plan being only $15/yr for 128MB of RAM. Which is not much but for a small website not expecting a lot of traffic is pretty good. Plus, not many other VPS providers offer this kind of option. There is CPanel shared hosting for $4/mo and a $10 VPS will get you twice the resources as most competitors.
Pro Good performance
RamNode usually has some pretty good performance according to benchmarks. Of course, VPS benchmarks are not very reliable but RamNode consistently ranks pretty high in them.
Pro Support is responsive
Even on a Saturday night RamNode support responds to a ticket in less than 15 minutes.
Pro BizSpark
Although it's a bit laborious to acquire, BizSpark gets startups a ton of free tools and usage.
Cons
Con Doesn't give you many advanced functionalities
Compared to other VPS providers, the Admin interface for RamNode is rather limited. For example, scaling your instances up and down is not as advanced.
Con Dashboard is weird to navigate
Looks pretty, but weird to navigate. The whole left to right thing is unintuitive. It's also very sluggish, or just doesn't load on a poor internet connection.