Prices are still ridiculous. Compare it with something like Hetzner:
32Gb/i7.
I used them for 5 weeks, in that five week period I had 5 1-2 day blocks where the machine was unreachable.
>A incoming attack influence the network for few minutes. The network department has solved the issue.
few minutes was 31 hours
our network-team told us, that there was again an attack which caused the issues you mentioned.
27 hours
currently we can't see any issue, is this still given?
connection timed out (no idea how long as I'd not installed monitoring at that point).
etc etc.
I canceled shortly after.
I'm back on Linode for now (I actually changed the design of the product I'm developing so that I can store files onto S3 so I can stay with Linode and move easily in the future).
A fast server is a paperweight without reliable network access.
I am not particularly keen to move entirely to them, however, as I just have a gut feeling I'd prefer to have the service of someone like Linode in a true emergency. As a high powered server for experiments, side projects or things that don't demand 100% uptime (e.g. my company's collaboration software), however, Hetzner has proven superb so far.
They've been hacked badly twice and both times withheld information from their customers. Bizarre that you would prefer this type of service than from others.
12:13:14 up 183 days, 21:23, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.55, 0.49
The problem is unreliability of hardware. When one of the hard disks broke in the previous server, it was faster to setup a new server to transfer everything rather than waiting for the repair.
That said, it did spur a month-long effort to truly revamp my dusty backup-and-restore process so I'm in a much better position for when it happens again.
A failed HDD should NEVER, EVER, bring a server down.
I'm strongly advising against cheep providers like ovh or hetzner without proper redundancy.
Others on my radar are https://hivelocity.net and http://www.100tb.com/ - at the VPS level, http://buyvm.net/ and http://prgmr.com/xen/ are both cheap for the quality you appear to get (but I can't yet vouch for this directly).