We trialled Linode for a bandwidth-heavy product and found that their network has quite heavy contention (decent enough speeds for bulk TCP stuff, but frequent

We trialled Linode for a bandwidth-heavy product and found that their network has quite heavy contention (decent enough speeds for bulk TCP stuff, but frequent periods of elevated packet loss, latency and jitter that caused problems for our realtime application). It makes sense given how cheap their bandwidth is, and probably isn't an issue for hosting websites / API servers / etc, but something to be aware of.