I can't really say too much other than they looked to be more "here's a box", like linode, rather than aws who are far more in the full vertical integration bus

I can't really say too much other than they looked to be more "here's a box", like linode, rather than aws who are far more in the full vertical integration business. Only used them to host a few sites years back, and never pushed anything hard enough to break it. My general advice is for personal and non-critical/demanding stuff go for bang for buck, but for critical stuff (I.e. Ecommerce) you can't understate the value of a robust and effective support infrastructure. I remember the really bad old days when I'd have to drive to downtown Chicago at three in the morning to fuck with a physical server in a rack in a colo. So glad to be able to offload that end of things.