"That's why I'm a big fan of Rackspace. You can get bare metal servers for heavy I/O and simultaneously have "Cloud" servers on the same local network (example: Github)."
- Brett Hoerner
"You wouldn't want to use the virtual hard drive they provide you, but rather EBS (Elastic Block Storage). With that you can setup a mirrored RAID (redundancy is a given already) of as many devices as you please."
- Brett Hoerner