As a user of both services for years, the only point on which they are similar was/is that they both offer shared cheap VMs (as do lots of other services). Pre

As a user of both services for years, the only point on which they are similar was/is that they both offer shared cheap VMs (as do lots of other services). Presenting early DO as a ripoff of linode is frankly absurd, the UI, user experience, API, Load balancing, backups, and docs were all vastly superior to Linode, and it honestly felt like the copying was more the other way round as Linode tried to catch up with their UI.