No history with Rackspace but I've had a Linode system up for about 6 months without issue. On the other hand, I've heard of 2 instances of Rackspace having out

No history with Rackspace but I've had a Linode system up for about 6 months without issue. On the other hand, I've heard of 2 instances of Rackspace having outages in that time. To be honest with you though, I don't trust either.... I do most of my hosting with dedicated servers at Softlayer and feel that is the best route. I mainly use my Linode as off-network storage/testing location.