that's not the point; the point is that if you buy 32 1GiB 'slices' even if you are getting completely fair slices that really have 1GiB ram, they are going to cost more than buying one server with 32GiB ram. (now in some situations, 32 1GiB slices are going to be more useful, but 1 32GiB server is going to be cheaper than 32 1GiB slices. )
I sell slices myself; and this is something that should be clear to everyone; the reason why you'd want to buy a slice from me (or someone else) is that a 1GiB slice from me is a lot cheaper than a dedicated server with 1GiB ram.
now, some VPS providers have really cool provisioning systems that add a lot of value (I'm still working on mine... but I'm not there.) but those are not unique to virtualization. You can build really cool provisioning systems to work with hardware servers as well. The win from virtualization is that 8 cores/32GiB ram is the most economical server configuration at the moment; with virtualization you can slice that up into smaller servers for people who need less than 32GiB ram /8 cores, and save them a bunch of money.
I sell slices myself; and this is something that should be clear to everyone; the reason why you'd want to buy a slice from me (or someone else) is that a 1GiB slice from me is a lot cheaper than a dedicated server with 1GiB ram.
now, some VPS providers have really cool provisioning systems that add a lot of value (I'm still working on mine... but I'm not there.) but those are not unique to virtualization. You can build really cool provisioning systems to work with hardware servers as well. The win from virtualization is that 8 cores/32GiB ram is the most economical server configuration at the moment; with virtualization you can slice that up into smaller servers for people who need less than 32GiB ram /8 cores, and save them a bunch of money.