I am working on a new project. I have signed up for a half-dozen VPS providers trying to find somebody to use in addition to Amazon Web Services. We have been benchmarking performance as well as administration. There must be hundreds of VPN providers listed here and a lot of them are similar - specs around the same, same ordering pages, similar admin panels, same signup emails, etc.
For some reason nobody is offering an API where new instances can be started programmatically. I noticed some providers have an API where you can reboot servers and query CPU usage etc. but nothing that lets you add more resources without going through the standard ordering pages.
So, is there somebody who is now offering an API, or is there anybody interested in offering an API? I think this is an area that is being grossly under-provided for.