Same for Rackspace, IBM/Softlayer, and everyone else with a large cloud running Xen. Linode was actually my failover target for some of those clouds to weather

Same for Rackspace, IBM/Softlayer, and everyone else with a large cloud running Xen. Linode was actually my failover target for some of those clouds to weather the reboots. They offer both Xen and KVM based instances. If you're still running Xen, you can live migrate your instance to KVM and make all your new Linodes default to KVM via a toggle in your account settings.