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Not exactly deployed yet, but it's going to be Linode for sure, perhaps with PiCloud for computation-intensive parts. I looked at AWS for a while, but seems overkill at the moment, besides, the AWS management panel and the pricing pages/simple calculator are not exactly user-friendly – and that might've influenced my decision a tad, having a simpler UI.

For personal and test projects, I use DigitalOcean – the lower price being the main reason.

Linode resizing seems a bit better, too – so for a big project which (hopefully) will need scaling, that's a plus. But I ran a Linode for two months before switching to DO, and tried to resize the disk image, and the whole thing went unresponsive, had to start from scratch (thankfully, no data was lost, I was just playing at that moment).

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> perhaps with PiCloud for computation-intensive parts

You know PiCloud is shutting down, and mostly replaced with http://www.multyvac.com/ although they were supposed to launch I think 3 months ago and still haven't. I wish them all the best, but do be wary of basing a product on it.

I'm going to keep saying it but nobody should be using Linode for production use. They have a history of hiding critical issues (in particular security) from their customers. It really is unacceptable and inexcusable conduct.

I've been considering migrating a bunch of things to Linode. I have read a lot of reviews and have not seen too many negative things. Do you have any more information or advice on where I can look to find out about what you are referring to?

I currently use Rackspace for anything critical. My experiences have been extremely positive with them. In a few years of using them I've only had one issue where I wasn't happy with them, but in the hosting world that's pretty good. The only reason i'm looking to migrate things is because Rackspace is far more expensive.

If not Linode, which service do you prefer?

He probably means this – http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/coldfusion-hack-used...

I guess every provider has its "horror story". Rackspace suffering outages, DigitalOcean closing a personal site (if I recall correctly) for some dubious reasons, AWS having problems with EBS-EC2 interaction (again, not entirely sure of the details).

I'm still considering Rackspace as an alternative.

> the whole thing went unresponsive

Do you mean after it came back up? Resizing a Linode requires shutting down the instance, then you have to boot it again.

Yeah, I know, I did everything as needed. The console showed that it was online, but I couldn't SSH into it or use the LISH web console to access it. I wrote to their support team, but at that point, I had already redone everything from scratch.

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