Internally we have physical servers, externally we us linode deployed via ansible, we don't rely on any linode specific features (api'snor anything). I (as the

Internally we have physical servers, externally we us linode deployed via ansible, we don't rely on any linode specific features (api'snor anything). I (as the sole programmer) made that decision early on. AWS is a none starter because of the gradual vendor lockin (also nature of our business means growth/scalability is very easily predicted).