Those servers are not tested at the same time. Storm was tested a week ago, but Linode 2 years ago - not a fair comparison, as servers do get upgraded continuou

Those servers are not tested at the same time. Storm was tested a week ago, but Linode 2 years ago - not a fair comparison, as servers do get upgraded continuously. I tested Linode, EC2 and Slicehost few years ago and Linode was twice as fast than others in I/O. Though, I was testing smallest instances available, while benchmark above used large instances.