Great, they announced that they'd be doing this a while back. Good to see them finally release it. Linode have always been good for stability, they might not be the cheapest but they have very few network issues and have damn good network speeds.

At first look, it appears better than Digital ocean.

The storage capacity is different. At the $10 level, DO provides an extra 6GB (pretty marginal), but above that Linode has the advantage on storage. I haven't used Linode in a couple years, but DO seems a little slow on my $10/month toy server.

They're pretty equivalent though. I think DO has the advantage by providing a $5 plan as well for those that are new or what to experiment new stuff on smaller servers first (which is what I do myself).

This is why I went with DO. Linode does appear to be a better value for anything beyond the $10 plan, though -- just from a raw numbers perspective.

It is. Unlike DO, they also have IPv6 support and don't censor.

What does DO censor? oO

Don't censor what, exactly?

I love their admin panel. I think it is the best among different provider. But seem lack some feature especially the options for share storage like S3.

I think Linode is great hosting company. However, if they don't innovate, someone else will catch up soon, especially Linode (since 2003) already around 10 years plus.

I also wondering why they don't offer more services like AWS.

However, AWS recently increase EC2 pricing (almost 100%) for better hardware (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/).

My only major issue with Linode is their limitations of their stackscripts, and that they don't add and setup local IPs for their servers by default.

I would also like to see them use their Nodebalancers (Linode version of a loadbalancer) to expand across datacenters. It could be nice of them to provide an easier solution to load-balancing between regions so if I set up my app in each of their datacenters, and add a nodebalancer, they could help me lead the traffic to the closest source.

As for innovation they have added LongView recently https://www.linode.com/longview

Does somebody has user experiences about Digital Ocean and Linode? I heard that Linode is known to be more stable and that Digital Ocean had servers offline for some hours even without informing customers. Any insights or user experiences here?

I run https://minimalreader.com/ on Digital Ocean. They do have moments of downtime every now and then, the most severe being 12 hours of severe network issues back in October 2013. Since then, I have rarely had issues with my Droplets in the NYC datacenters.

You can see their status page for all of the issues they've reported: https://status.digitalocean.com/ (mostly network connectivity issues)

Feel free get in touch (email in profile) if you want to talk more about my experience with DO and how I try to architect around their network issues.

I switched from Linode to Digital Ocean a few weeks ago. It's mostly for personal sites and hobby projects, so cheaper is better and $20 vs $5 is a no brainer.

I've not had any issues, their support is great, performance has been great, no complaints. But obviously I'm not using it for anything critical...

Awesome - have been waiting on this for a while. Multi-user accounts is another big win for Linode in my books. They provide a happy middle ground for me between DO and AWS: more than you might need personally, but perfect for small business needs.

Mixed emotions... after the free upgrade to 2GB, I feel like I'll be losing something. But saving $10/month is probably worth it for my low-traffic sites. And I was running at 1GB just a few months ago anyway!

And as easy as that, we all switch. Ain't this wonderful?

Anybody knows whats is the IN/OUT transfer rate of DO?

Seems to be 1 Gb/s. At least, I am able to reach 90~100 MB/s from my home connection to my $20 droplet in AMS2 regardless of the time of day.

Well that is super convenient. :)