There are lots of providers at or around this price point (check out lowendbox or http://www.lowendstock.com/ http://www.lowendstock.com/). It's generally accep

There are lots of providers at or around this price point (check out lowendbox or http://www.lowendstock.com/ http://www.lowendstock.com/). It's generally accepted they're oversold, but that doesn't make them any less of a good deal. For instance crissic.net (happy customer) offer 256MB ram and either 20GB SSD or 50GB spinning-rust for 15USD/year. The only news here is that Linode and DO don't think they can be profitable at these price points (and it's probably not possible when using Xen/KVM that can't easily be overprovisioned).