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Are you kidding? I often evaluate offerings from lowendbox and it still surprises me that for many of them images for some of the distros don't even work (solusvm seems to be crappy too). Linode is probably the only company outside of Rackspace (slicehost) to get Arch Linux images right to the point where it works great for production use. The support is always under 5 minutes.

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I never used Linode for Arch, what do differently that makes it better than others?

It is very stable. I believe it is from having the custom kernel (it seems that whoever puts together image knows how to keep the arch guest and whatever host happy). What you will see with most vps providers with arch is that you purchase a plan, run pacman -Syu then something no longer works (usually the network interface). I don't know exactly what causes the problem, but my understanding is that it is due to incompatibilities with the guest kernel and the host or the technology the host is using. On linode you don't have to install the linux package they usually provide close to the latest (currently 3.7.x).

Ah, I see. I use Arch on Digital Ocean, and I've had a pretty good experience, aside from their initial image being a bit old (I had to change its settings to use netcfg and systemd).

I believe they are in the process of updating the Arch image (started sometime this week) as it is no longer listed on the list of images.

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