I&#x27;ve been a customer of linode for over a year and soon will be migrating to another provider, most probably Amazon.
The main reason is a lot of connectivity issues and down time. I always hosted pet projects and simple web app on Linode, but just this week, I used it a for a major project. 
Now, the whole region of Fremont,CA has connectivity issues and is down for a couple of hours per day. The same happens for other regions as well. Maybe always it&#x27;s been like that, but I&#x27;ve never paid attention.
You can see their incident history in here:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.linode.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;status.linode.com</a>
(I browsed it a little bit and it seems they had a lot issues in the past as well)
I probably will lost about 6 times more money that Linode has saved me over AWS only for the down time in this week.<p>So my suggestion is for a small-non critical projects you can use Linode, but for anything serious you better use something that is reliable.