I guess I've had a bad impression of Linode due to immediate 24h ddos nullrouting, repeated leaks of credit cards, and expensive entry-level instances compared with their main competitors. Even AWS l

Linode still has a "more reliable" and "a real company" feel to it. Vultr is still a one guy show with abrupt dick moves like this one.

* Linode complacency

Top Ten Reasons To Pick Vultr Over Linode

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And not everyone needs servers in Australia, whereas for the other two popular SEA locations at Singapore and Japan Linode also has those. Heck for Singapore DigitalOcean is also an option.

There are zero reasons whatsoever to choose Vultr over Linode at $5.

I'd rather go for Linode if Vultr doesn't have the $2.5 instances...

108.61.201.151 4.65MB/sLinode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 9.49MB/sDO, Bangalore, IN 139.59.44.249 14.4MB/sSoftlayer, Chennai, IN

Softlayer 2.45MB/sTokyo, Japan Linode 8.71MB/sSingapore Softlayer 7.88MB/sRotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 89.6MB/sHaarlem, Netherlands Leasew

DC, US Softlayer 2.29MB/s Tokyo, Japan Linode 8.09MB/s Singapore Softlayer 7.32MB/s Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 76.7MB/sHaarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 85.2MB/s Dis

Tokyo, Japan Linode 9.34MB/s

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Tokyo, Japan Linode 9.43MB/s

Tokyo, Japan Linode 9.02MB/s

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Linode, multiple times.

Do you mean Vultr, Linode, AWS have leaked any customer CC?

The market is changing the same way shared hosting has. Digital Ocean do not need to be competitive with Linode and Vultr, in fact the opposite. Linode has had 3 price drops in a reasonably short pe