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by zaidf 4478 days ago
The biggest reason DO took off has little to do with the reasons you cite. It's got to do with simplicity and hourly billing. AWS had the latter without former. Your typical VPS host has a bit of both but wont tell you launch 20 instances for a few hours for pennies.
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> Your typical VPS host has a bit of both but wont tell you to launch 20 instances for a few hours for pennies.

DigitalOcean limits you to 5 off the bat, but that's just being picky.

RackSpace, Atlantic, Gigenet, VPS.net, Oxeo, HPCloud, Upcloud, Dotblock, StormOnDemand (LiquidWeb) to name a few. And that's off the top of my head.