Is this different from a VPS?<p>Looks like Linode has Debian 6 available too:
<a href="http://blog.linode.com/2011/02/08/debian-6-squeeze/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.linode.com/2011/02/08/debian-6-squeeze/</a>
There's no such thing as a "cloud server" that sits atop a cluster of machines and pools resources together like RAM into a single instance. VPS and Cloud Servers are identical. It's just marketing. TO THE CLOUD!<p>Any virtualized Linux instance boils down to a VM running on a single host server. This is true at Linode, Amazon, Rackspace Cloud Servers, etc.<p>Xen and KVM instantiate a virtualized kernel per VM. Virtuozzo is a container/enhanced jail and runs under the host's kernel.