I've been using DO for about 6 months now, mainly as a OpenVPN server, and the odd bit of work from a tablet via a terminal. Since I usually use a tmux termina

I've been using DO for about 6 months now, mainly as a OpenVPN server, and the odd bit of work from a tablet via a terminal. Since I usually use a tmux terminal, I can't say that I've seen downtime in that time. If you're looking for possible alternatives though, these guys were posted here a while ago: http://cloudatcost.com/ http://cloudatcost.com/ I got one of the $35 VPSs (which are still available, it seems), and have done minimal playing with it, but seems to be ok.