[mdekkers]

I tried VULTR, but they also suck. Linode looks interesting, but they don't appear to offer private networking.

I was spending hundreds of dollars a month on DO, VULTR and a few others. Last month I rented 3x 16 core 64GB bare metal servers, stuck Ceph on, and am now standing up Mesosphere on KVM. Cheaper, faster, and not more of an operational risk over using the cloud-clowns.

[lykron]

Linode offers a shared private network per datacenter.

[mdekkers]

I did not know that, and was unable to find this information anywhere on the site last time I checked. This is good to know, I'll consider them for bursting.