[praxeologist]

How might the performance of the $5 DO or either of the $10 from Linode/DO compare to what I get from my ~$10 shared hosting? I'm probably going to try a VPS at some point, but was just curious about if I could get rid of the shared and move my sites over too.

[uladzislau]

From my experience $5 DO is more robust than most shared plans. However the trade off is that you have to setup and maintain everything yourself including security.

[rogerdpack]

Yeah for me my $5 DO beats the heck [for a rails app] out of having to use fcgi and have them constantly shutting down my processes, (in this case--bluehost) disabling my account for having too many files, etc. It is much faster.