My biggest question is: who wants this? Do you have a list of potential customers already? Can you sell your half-rack of capacity if you get funding?
The website you linked to is, frankly, not slick enough or trendy enough to attract the HN crowd to rent your servers. It doesn't clearly define why I should pick you over DigitalOcean, Linode or even Amazon. I can understand that you're probably focused on 'shipping' by building out the platform, but I think you should work on validating the idea as well. I would use whatever funding you have to commission a proper landing page that explains a few key points and captures email addresses. Even better, go out and talk to people and explain why your project is new, exciting and better. See if they also think it's new, exciting and better. If not, iterate and repeat.
Basically, rather than stressing about whether to buy MLC or SLC, collect customers who are concerned about performance first. Then find out what they're looking for: is it really SSDs, or is it a better core/memory ratio, or it reliable networking (that last one is highly likely, I've never seen anyone who's happy with their VPS networking). The best part about this plan it, besides paying for the website (which shouldn't be more than 500 bucks), you don't need to sink any more money in right now. Just time.
The website you linked to is, frankly, not slick enough or trendy enough to attract the HN crowd to rent your servers. It doesn't clearly define why I should pick you over DigitalOcean, Linode or even Amazon. I can understand that you're probably focused on 'shipping' by building out the platform, but I think you should work on validating the idea as well. I would use whatever funding you have to commission a proper landing page that explains a few key points and captures email addresses. Even better, go out and talk to people and explain why your project is new, exciting and better. See if they also think it's new, exciting and better. If not, iterate and repeat.
Basically, rather than stressing about whether to buy MLC or SLC, collect customers who are concerned about performance first. Then find out what they're looking for: is it really SSDs, or is it a better core/memory ratio, or it reliable networking (that last one is highly likely, I've never seen anyone who's happy with their VPS networking). The best part about this plan it, besides paying for the website (which shouldn't be more than 500 bucks), you don't need to sink any more money in right now. Just time.