At Cloudmanic Labs (http://cloudmanic.com http://cloudmanic.com) we use Linode for production stuff. Mainly it is worth the extra money to give our customers ev

At Cloudmanic Labs (http://cloudmanic.com http://cloudmanic.com) we use Linode for production stuff. Mainly it is worth the extra money to give our customers even a few milliseconds faster response times. Our apps make a fair amount of concurrent calls to the server. So the 8 cores at Linode really helps. For all our non-customer production stuff we use Digital Ocean. DO is great. If your site does not have lots of concurrent connections DO is a great option.