I'm trying to decide between these two companies: Linode vs Digital Ocean for a new VPS.<p>My needs are: potentially heavy CPU, and heavy memory usage.<p>I'm using a Amazon EC2 (Micro) instance right now - and paying ~$25/month for it (its never shut down) - which seems pretty non-cost effective for a VPS from Amazon that never is shutdown.<p>One of my biggest gripes right now about Amazon is its slowness (via Micro instance which makes sense having only like a .5gb of raw) where i could get a lot more hardware for potentially the same amount at Linode or DO.<p>Does anyone have statistics on the number of nodes (e.g. other client accounts) running on the same VPS for linode or DO?<p>I'll be running Ubuntu, with python stack<p>Thanks
If you don't need a "cloud VPS" and you decide to get a dedicated, don't get an OVH server (been there done that), go for a Hetzner [0] with plans starting at 32G RAM DDR3 + Core i7 for just €49 (~$67)<p>If you need <i></i><i>cheap bandwidth</i><i></i> nothing beats D.O... So it all depends on your app needs. You should take a look at current LowEndBox [1] offers. I got a couple of 5Gig RAM + 2 cores (2.0Ghz/e) VPS's for $6/month in a limited offer 2 years ago (and I still have them and I'm very happy with the service!) Seriously, there's some nice stuff there...<p>[0] <a href="https://www.hetzner.de/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hetzner.de/en/</a><p>[1] <a href="http://lowendbox.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lowendbox.com/</a>
Get one Kimsufi or soyoustart server from OVH. Digital Ocean and Linode will not be enough for heavy lifting.<p>I`m personally using blend of two. 6 heavy servers on OVH and new projects always start in DO.
if your not concerned with it not being a "cloud" instance then go to OVH and buy a physical server. It is worlds cheaper and you can set up linux with libvirt to be a very effective virtualization host. Its the setup I moved to and I can run four or five different VM's on a beefy host for the same price of a single amazon instance.