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I like uncle's solution. Higher price for month-to-month, great discount for quarterly, 6mo, yearly. best of both worlds.
RAM Host started out with desktop hardware, as far as I know.
We use i5 3550 on our OpenVZ line.
Full Node (45 VPS)
Load Averages - 0.19 0.37 0.45
Anybody that's saying desktop CPU's are useless are just regurgitating what they have read others say, it might have been true a few years back but certainly not now. Most of the Ivy Bridge series are equivalent to Xeon in most ways apart from ECC support.
Unless you have run such set ups in production you cant really comment
Some of the i7's I have used out bench most of the Xeons others use, its up to personal choice.
The big difference being that when using desktop grade hardware 24x7 just expect a shorter life span on the nodes, the reality is from an end user perspective you really cant tell the difference and at the point at which an end user could then they would be using it to the point they should have a dedi not a VPS anyway.
I understand the reasons behind people not liking desktop CPU's in host nodes but the truth is they bench just as high if you get the right mix, I still have people on i7's that actually don't want to move because they feel so 'snappy'
I used desktop hardware for full virtualization (Xen-HVM) and the results were disappointing, was struggling for 8 GB ram, however, that was in 2009, things might have changed.
Probably because a lot of providers here are using 8 year old Xeons.
Not Leb
@Corey naa, i7's are beasts just not meant for 24x7 operation under load.
For personal usages, I won't mind desktop hardwares. But when it comes to 24/7, these hardware will fail earlier than expected and at the end of the day, total cost comes to the same when you add labor and hardware replacement cost
@AnthonySmith - I don't know if you saw our repository, but libvirt 1 for CentOS 6 is available
- even comes with Xen 4.2 support 
@marcm ooh nice I will have a look.
@AnthonySmith - Go to http://repo.vpsnodebox.com and install the repo rpm package. You can find additional instructions in this thread: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/6358
Ok guys, the node is online, PM me if you want to try out a server!
Indeed, we still have a few 1st gen i3 530's and 540's chugging along, although all our new servers are Xeons.
@ramnet Great to hear, considering how well you guys are doing! Thanks for the input!
We have several OS templates available, PM me to test out a server!