[GTALUG] Linux hosting

[Myles Braithwaite]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term
> hosting?  I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no
> issues.

I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad
about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches
the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management
console got leaked on the internet).

I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker
News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol
for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from
scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money).
I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.