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I'd suggest using Linode over Digital Ocean.

They already are the same price/performance [roughly, unless you are buying DO's $5 nodes]. They also have stuff like load balancers built out and are reasonably reliable [although only at the datacenter level, they don't have multi-DC load balancers]:

https://www.linode.com/nodebalancers

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Just a counterpoint as someone who switched from Linode to DO (and indeed have used mostly their $5 nodes) and currently uses a mix of DO and Azure: You need to be comfortable with command-line server administration to use Linode. Yes, they've got tutorials, and they're pretty good. You can be walked through installing __________ on whatever specific flavor of OS you happen to be running. But the moment something goes wrong or I had a slightly-above-novice-level question, the response was that Linode did not offer that level of support and it was a self-managed server (or whatever the specific language was).

Not complaining, that was exactly what I was paying for, but it's certainly something to take into consideration if you're not comfortable with command-line server admin.

DO is pretty much the same as Linode in that respect. You have tutorials and command line comfort as the basic requirement for using the product.

Both the parent and the OP both suggested switching to DO which is the point of comparison.

I've never had better support/more comprehensive with DO than Linode. Then again, I've had a Linode account for like 6 years and I think I've opened as many tickets. ;)

I am a big Linode fan and I hadn't realized they price-matched DO. Thank you for the info.

Ya, they shuffled their prices a month or so ago:

https://www.linode.com/pricing

Its the same 1 Core / 1GB == $10 pricing DO uses. [roughly]

Be warned that Linode's status page is also borderline useless. Their website and web-based management interface (and API, according to customers on their IRC channel) were throwing 500 Internal Server Errors for >2 hours the other night, and their status page never had any mention of it.

In 4 year it's always worked for me.

edit: years

Just curious, because I plan on using node balancers. Does node balancers only pool bandwidth on linode instances on the DC the node balancer is in?

Don't trust me <3 Ask their support.
I believe its all of them:
https://blog.linode.com/2010/02/08/bandwidth-pooling/

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