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Wow - really? I use both Linode and DO extensively and Linode is better on almost all fronts in my experience. Faster servers, better network, Linode's Object Storage is way better than DO's "spaces" and Linode's support is hands down the better of the two. If you're going to spend $5 on a server why would you go with DO unless you're already there?

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> If you're going to spend $5 on a server why would you go with DO unless you're already there?

I would go with anyone other than Linode, considering they left the control plane running a publicly accessible unpatched version of ColdFusion, which led to multiple instances of them losing control of customer's data.

Anyone but Linode.

I mean that was terrible, but I know full well that every company ever will have dumb vulnerabilities occasionally, so by that metric I could never use anyone.

Yeah I know about that incident - but also believe companies have the ability to learn from past mistakes and do better.

Unfortunately it wasn't a single incident.. fool me once..

Last time I provision on linode and do at the same time a created a ubuntu box. I found I had to setup a few additional things in linode. Linode never felt as polished which is fine.

The one thing that made do better was they had a datacenter in my region.

No one mentioned vultr killer $2.50 which is where I would go if I wanted a dev box to play around on.

I remember something being off in Vultr $2.50 offer which made me stop halfway during sign-up. Had to go to https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/ again to remind myself: $2.50 VPS does not come with an IPv4 address. At least today they openly mark it and I think 5 years ago you'd only find it after a few clicks.

This was an advantage to me at the time. My ISP (Internode) had enabled dual-stack v6, and a few of the other options I was looking at on LowEndBox came with a NATed v4 address. Here was Vultr offering an IP I could fully control, even point real domains to!

I don't know if this is still the case, but I also got no SSH logspam from bots trying to log in on a v6 host.

Same here, I use both but prefer Linode in every aspect. Much better support and reliability in particular.

I moved a few very low-end hosts to DO when the $5 price point appeared but have never been overly impressed. Later Linode matched prices so no real reason to look into DO anymore.

But I do still use both. Partly to avoid migrating the DO hosts I have but more because I just like to keep aware of how both are evolving.

Linodes support is great; I can't say much about DO because I haven't had to use them.

Around the time I switched there was a lot going on. DO had released their $5 droplets. Linode was still stuck on their old, clunky UI, and the migration to the new "Cloud UI" wasn't executed well. Then there was a few DDOS attacks that took stuff down, and the multiple serious security vulnerabilities that they did a -horrible- job managing.

I've been at DO for a number of years now and it's been solid. I have a few dozen servers and take advantage of a few of their services. Their Managed Databases are incredibly well executed.

I've been happy over all so no reason to look elsewhere.

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