Rocksteady reliability, I've had zero unplanned downtime on Linode over 2-12 nodes in 5 years.

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.

My experience (running ~7 machines in Linode's NJ datacenter) was that around once every two months I wake up with an email saying "we restarted server X due to emergency maintenance". It's not annoying enough to switch - yet. And EC2 has the wrong CPU/Memory ratio for me (too little CPU - Linode rocks here!).

5) huh? DO added this in 2013[0], Linode has had it since 2008[1].

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...

OK. What I meant was the concept of VPC in EC2, should have addressed it correctly :).

Basically following:

1. No public IP on each machine by default 2. Security settings managed through web UI and apply to linodes from UI.

> 5. Private network - Does not exist on Linode. Shame.

What do you mean? Actually private network did not exist on DO until recently and it's been on Linode for a long time.

NOBODY should be using Linode. For ANY reason other than for throwaway reasons.

They have deliberately withheld information from customers not once, but twice during critical security incidents.

However, you can pool the bandwidth on Linode. DO, you can't.