20 new servers at Softlayer: $4k/month to month, provisioned in 2 hours 20 almost equivalent servers at Rackspace: $10k/month on a 1-2 year contract, provision

20 new servers at Softlayer: $4k/month to month, provisioned in 2 hours 20 almost equivalent servers at Rackspace: $10k/month on a 1-2 year contract, provisioned a week after two weeks of quotes and contract negotiations. That's what I was expecting you to give as the reason to the title of your post.