What else...
DO had lots of hiccups with it's networking when I tried them (though was over a year ago so ymmv).
Everything I have on Linode earns me money in one way or another so they pay for themselves, I currently have 3 nodes for a total of $60 bucks a month, DO I could do the same for $15 but really $45 a month is nothing compared to the cost of a machine going down even briefly (even if it takes me an hour to fix, I bill more than that).
For me Linode hits the sweetspot of price/reliability.
To add another. 6) Linode offers IPv6, while DO says it's coming "soon"[2] (and has been saying that for well over a year).
[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/company/blog/introducing-privat...
[1] https://blog.linode.com/2008/03/14/private-back-end-network-...
[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/is-ipv6-ava...
Basically following:
1. No public IP on each machine by default 2. Security settings managed through web UI and apply to linodes from UI.
What do you mean? Actually private network did not exist on DO until recently and it's been on Linode for a long time.
They have deliberately withheld information from customers not once, but twice during critical security incidents.