Digital Ocean is interesting, but they don't really come out cheaper for large, continuous-duty instances. Their tiny servers look great, if you don't need much

Digital Ocean is interesting, but they don't really come out cheaper for large, continuous-duty instances. Their tiny servers look great, if you don't need much storage. But on the larger instances, it's a straight $1/GB/month for SSD. With some commitment, Rackspace is more like $0.50, and Amazon around $0.35. Digital Ocean looks roughly comparable to Amazon for RAM, and slightly ahead on price-per-core (if you assume all cores are equal), but way behind on SSD. Again, this is assuming you want large instances and are going to run them 24/7 for at least 6 to 12 months -- otherwise, DO pricing starts to look a lot better.