[bliti]

The credit card break in caused me a lot of grief. It just blew my mind how something so important would not be treated as such. If you do not take care of the basics, I cannot trust you with my code.

For most of my smaller needs, I use webfaction (web hosting and vps). Which has been very good. Costs more, but their support is very good. Bigger things go to Amazon.

I did not have hardware issues with Linode. Wish you the best of luck. Hopefully they have learned and taken security seriously since the last breach.

[taway2012]

OK. FWIW, I do not consider credit card number theft to be a big deal (I just lost my wallet a couple of weeks ago). I know I am probably in the minority on this.

That said, they should have an option to pay by paypal to outsource this risk to somebody else. I always pick paypal when I have the option to do so.

There's a saying that guarding diamonds and coal to the same extent is unwise. :)

Good luck and thanks for your reply!