[thaumaturgy]

I suppose as usual it depends on what you're doing. For boring application hosting, DO has been indistinguishable from Linode performance-wise.

DO had excellent technical documentation, okay support (I really miss Linode's), and has been regularly churning out new products. For someone that doesn't like moving infrastructure around, they are a good long-term bet.

[tedivm]

The apps I made were very CPU and Network intensive- in one case it was a web crawler[1], the other was a github application that had to scan and review repositories fairly often[2]. CPU ended up being the ultimate bottleneck, and Linode performed far better.

1. https://github.com/tedivm/fedimapper

2. https://github.com/gitconsensus