I run a small blogging network. Linode have upgraded RAM, added cores, added disk space. They've done everything except improve random-access I/O, which is a major bottleneck for Wordpress installations thanks to MySQL's penchant for joining tables on disk regardless of indices.
I moved to DigitalOcean about 8 months ago simply to get access to SSDs. In most other respects I preferred Linode.
I run a small blogging network. Linode have upgraded RAM, added cores, added disk space. They've done everything except improve random-access I/O, which is a major bottleneck for Wordpress installations thanks to MySQL's penchant for joining tables on disk regardless of indices.
I moved to DigitalOcean about 8 months ago simply to get access to SSDs. In most other respects I preferred Linode.