I recently looked at both Linode and Digital Ocean to do some production roll out of a few sites that I had on Heroku. After looking at them I went with OVH and

I recently looked at both Linode and Digital Ocean to do some production roll out of a few sites that I had on Heroku. After looking at them I went with OVH and a dedicated server. I can put KVM on the dedicated server and get essentially the same interface I get at either one of those sites and I pay $40/Month for an 8 core 24GB server with 2TB of storage. Yes i know there are benefits to using a real "cloud" provider over just getting a dedicated server, but if my setup needs that kind of redundancy I can set it up ( multiple servers, different providers and Route53 ) People are paying a premium for something they will likely never use.