Moved from Linode to a dedicated rental. Half the monthly cost for 3x the specs, and a night and day difference in the site's performance. High-quality hardware

Moved from Linode to a dedicated rental. Half the monthly cost for 3x the specs, and a night and day difference in the site's performance. High-quality hardware is deeply underappreciated. Would've cost me $1k/mo to get something equivalent on AWS. Note: I did move back to Linode because the traffic all went away, and now I just run it on a fairly-small node there. Cloud has a role, but mostly it just tricks you into leaking a lot of unnecessary cash with nickels and dimes, so you don't really realize how much you're spending.