And here I just finally finished migrating to RamNode for this very reason a week ago. Frick.
I've been working on a HN clone. The HN codebase creates a ton of small files for storage (one per post or comment), which need to be loaded up en masse on startup. Switching to Digital Ocean from Linode reduced startup time by 50x.
When I looked at their site I didn’t see information about what kind of SSDs they are using and, based on the price, assumed they are MLC (consumer grade). I’d never want that on a server.