Yeah. For me it was price and performance, both of which DigitalOcean wins.
I couldn't possibly care less about an admin panel. I'm a Linux guy.
I want cheap speed and reliability. With DO, you get all of them. Sorry Linode, but you're old news now.
I couldn't possibly care less about an admin panel. I'm a Linux guy.
I want cheap speed and reliability. With DO, you get all of them. Sorry Linode, but you're old news now.
I have a server in each and I like them both. However;
- Linode support is second to none. DO is not bad either but much slower and less responsive. You feel the difference when you really need it.
- I had a CC payment issue with DO since the beginning. I mentioned it to the support twice but unsolved as of yet, using paypal.
- You can't assign multiple IPs to your instance in DO. I have 6 IPs in one of my Linodes for SSL reasons. This is more than enough to compensate the price diff, actually Linode is cheaper because of that.
- No built in, easy-to-use load balancer in DO.
- Networking feels much faster and stable on Linode, at all occasions.
- Small things like "no more Amsterdam based droplets due to IP restrictions" when you urgently need a server don't usually happen on Linode.
Things like these pile up in the long run and you can easily justify the price difference. If have a very serious/critical project I'd definitly chose Linode over DO.
Do you not know about their major security incidents ?
http://venturebeat.com/2013/12/30/iaas-provider-digitalocean...
So for me, on average a $20 Linode has less RAM but performs better for CPU bound tasks than a $20 DO Droplet.