once you move pass the $100 mark per instance you are much much better off with a dedicated server. With OVH you could even start with $60 or $80. I sorta agre

once you move pass the $100 mark per instance you are much much better off with a dedicated server. With OVH you could even start with $60 or $80. I sorta agree although I think the barrier is somewhat higher than $100/month. One of the biggest wins with a service like Linode is that if hardware fails, you often don't even need to know about it. And if your server were to fail, they'd either get you running again from your image pretty quickly or you could at least spin up a new VPS from your backup. With a dedicated server, no matter how cheap, getting back up and running again can take a while even in the best of situations unless you're running hot spares or are already load balancing. It takes time to commission new boxes even at the best of the dedi providers and usually you'd just wait for hardware fix/replacement which can take hours.