Linode seems to be going strong. I wouldn't dare put anything in production on a rickety shop like DO. Especially after the whole controversy of them taking down someone's blog because it criticized some VP's friend at Google. DO feels like a company founded by devs first and sysadmins last.
DO seems to be for devs farting around and kids putting up wordpress sites. Its not really competing with shops like Linode or Rackspace. That may change, but everything about DO screams, "Do not use me for production."
Meanwhile, my 7 or so production VMs on Linode are going strong and now have been migrated to their new SSD-based platform.
How many startups have devs and no sysadmins? Seems like if a 2 man shop can make DO work without a sysadmin, they just saved a lot of money. When you get big then you can worry about such things.
DO seems to be for devs farting around and kids putting up wordpress sites. Its not really competing with shops like Linode or Rackspace. That may change, but everything about DO screams, "Do not use me for production."
Meanwhile, my 7 or so production VMs on Linode are going strong and now have been migrated to their new SSD-based platform.