I run mogade.com on 2 1GB bare metal web servers, and 2 1.7GB mongo/redis replicas. It's been rock solid for about 8 months. Initially picked them because we ra

I run mogade.com on 2 1GB bare metal web servers, and 2 1.7GB mongo/redis replicas. It's been rock solid for about 8 months. Initially picked them because we ran unixbench on it, linode and EC2, and they were significantly better (2x+ if i recall) and cheaper. They are also quick to answer support. There's been no downtime (that wasn't caused by me!). But there are some downsides. First, their web management portal sucks, it's like whoever built it discovered ajax and jquery for the first time. But you hardly spend any time there, so no big deal. Load balancing is expensive (at my cheap scale), and they don't have the API to do it yourself (remap an ip type thing). Also, they aren't innovating. When they first started, they were already quite behind AWS and when you compare what amazon has done the last couple years (email, dns, beanstalk...) they've only fallen farther behind. I already use S3 and I'm looking at using SMQ -having a split infrastructure sucks. Finally, they advertise way too much. Surely I'm not the only one who has seen it. It's annoying especially when you consider how stagnant they are. Feels like a very short sighted use of money.