On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Tim Tisdall <tisdall@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone had experience with digitalocean or linode for fairly long term hosting? I've only used digitalocean for occasional VPN use but have had no issues.
I have been using Linode for ~15 years and can't say anything bad about them. They are great. But there have been a few rough patches the in the past three years (the source code for their VPS management console got leaked on the internet). I'm a little scared of DigitalOcean after reading about them on Hacker News. Apparently when the server has a hardware failure it's protocol for them to delete all VPS on the server and make everyone start from scratch (they do provided a backup services but it cost extra money). I run a small dokku instance on DO and it has never happened to me.