I remember being a poor student in the 00s, looking for hosting providers and Linode was a new cool kid on the block (prohibitively expensive for me though). No

I remember being a poor student in the 00s, looking for hosting providers and Linode was a new cool kid on the block (prohibitively expensive for me though). Now a lot of things changed, and I can easily afford a VPS now, but Linode is still around and still is one of the better options. DigitalOcean is basically twice as expensive.