[AdamGibbins]

It's not clear to me how this differs from Digital Ocean, other than being (minimally) more expensive. Don't get me wrong, competition is good, and I'm always on the lookout for more hosts (I run a distributed (S|P)aaS, I want as many providers as possible). But a comparison of some description could be useful.

[mappu]

I'm the opposite - i have VPSes spread across a dozen or so countries, and i can't take advantage of any of the providers' differences because it's so much more important to have a uniform stack across all my hosts.

(free backups! free ftp space! free database hosting! custom control panel with a totally different api! etc - all pretty useless if you also have to architect for hosts without them)

On a side note, i can't use DO because they don't allow multiple IP addresses per VM.

[virmundi]

One point of difference is that DO and Linode both have fixed SSD sizes. This company allows you to mix and match CPU, disk and RAM. Neither to the former allow that (at least not yet).

[AdamGibbins]

That's not true with Linode, you can add additional disk, memory and transfer under the extra's menu once you've purchased a slot. They'll migrate you as required.

[virmundi]

Neat. I did not know that. Do they post that information anywhere on the public, you-haven't-paid-for-this-yet site? I've been trying to figure out what I'll need for hosting for the last few months. Linode looked best, but I worried about having to get beefing systems just to get more HD.