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by trebor 4666 days ago
Linode may have "regular" hard drives, but they're fast. I ran a legacy PHP commerce package for a client and it would log gigabytes of data due to deprecation warnings, I wasn't as knowledgeable about downgrading and freezing packages as I am now, but Linode handled it fine. I think they're 10k RPM SAS drives, so they're quite fast.

On the other hand, Linode gives you access to 8x Xen CPUs from the base package. While to get the same out of DigitalOcean you need to pay $160/mo. The pros/cons I see are:

DigitalOcean: SSD, RAM (2x), and therefore price (for low CPU apps) Linode: CPU, HD space, transfer (2-4x)

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Linode is working to upgrade to ssd. https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=10406&f=26