http://searchyc.com http://searchyc.com is hosted on linode for a couple of months now and it's been great. we initially wanted to go with slicehost but last ye

http://searchyc.com http://searchyc.com is hosted on linode for a couple of months now and it's been great. we initially wanted to go with slicehost but last year their wait list was so atrociously long that we gave up on ever seeing their invite. for the same $19.99 linode has more bandwidth and memory and xen support. really, what we've realized is actually most expensive is the cpu cycles since our app would crash consistently because the shared resources peaked when we started stress testing. since then with better resource management, better apache fiddling, and a couple rewrites we're handling a peak loads of more than 2000 people and an average load of 500 people. linode's documentation is somewhat lacking, i much prefer slicehost's wiki and forum for support but other than that we have a cluster of 4 or 5 linodes running and it's been great.