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Scaleway offering €2.99 2GB ram VPS, you can also check them out. Though their servers are hosted in Paris & Amsterdam.

It was also a pleasant surprise seeing a Brad Fitzpatrick testimonial on their homepage https://www.scaleway.com/

The difference in price is also a difference in reliability, scaleway doesn't use ECC memory, but linode does.

How much of a problem is that in practice?

Well I don't know of any statistics, since the server market don't normally use non-ecc memory. And it get more complicated when these errors aren't noticed before its too late.

I've seen this issue twice myself, so I'd say it's probably more common than we'd want it to be.

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