There's an excellent comparison of all the big virtual server services, with Linode recommended as a clear winner on almost all of the benchmarks (as always, YMMV).<p><a href="http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison" rel="nofollow">http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison</a><p>The one thing I really dislike about Linode is they don't offer automated backups.<p>I don't have any experience with them as a customer.