&gt; Because it&#x27;s trivial to figure out why he&#x27;s saying that by simply typing &quot;linode&quot; into google, but as of right now googling starfighter doesn&#x27;t immediately bring up any reasons to avoid them.<p>This doesn&#x27;t mean anything. I could get horror stories about <i>any</i> cloud service provider via Google yet we&#x27;re only being told not to use Linode.  Providing some context makes all the difference.