Reminds me of this: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/4706/why-linode-sucks-a-personal-rant/p1

I would not say Linode are the must have however they are longstanding, have a good team, are reliable, dependable and cash rich. When they decided to move everything to SDD for example they changed

Awesome, was hoping for this but didn't really expect it to happen. Should save me quite a bit of money assuming the 1 vCPU provides enough stability. Since this is Linode I'm sure it will.

So what exactly makes people praise Linode like they've attained nirvana with a Linode VPS? Uptime? Network? Support?

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Great,i like linode!

Dallas, TX: 13.6MB/sDownload speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 660KB/sDownload speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 42.6MB/sDownload speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 55.4MB/sDownload speed from Softlayer,

an also not insignificant amount of clients Linode used to have.

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While that may be true, the competition has been serving that market for the last year (or even more) and Linode is just joining it. Then again, I may be wrong by assuming which market they're targeti

I have never used Linode. Can any user here can compare performance in true life with, e.g., ramnode, EDIS, prometeus or other LE* providers? Is it for real so much better?

Thanks @serverian for the mention of this package.Linode is getting a lot of positive feedback on WHT after their upgrade of packages and network.Will give them try but as of now i will stick with vu

Linode still have 24 hour null-routes?

OMFG! Now this wasn't expected.. could always do with a Linode Japan. ;d

Good to see them finally drop this plan anyway, Linode's stability has always been A*.

https://blog.linode.com/2014/06/16/11th-linode-birthday-10-linode-plan/

I do 2 million pv/day on linode without any problem, i don't think wordpress can be that slow, and even you have the chance to run hhvm instead of PHP.

However, if I would wanted to host a critical application, I'd choose Linode over all.

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.92MB/s

Dallas, TX: 11.1MB/s Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 5.92MB/s Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 5.50MB/s Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 10.4MB/s Download speed from Softl