I tried VULTR, but they also suck. Linode looks interesting, but they don't appear to offer private networking.

I was spending hundreds of dollars a month on DO, VULTR and a few others. Last month I rented 3x 16 core 64GB bare metal servers, stuck Ceph on, and am now standing up Mesosphere on KVM. Cheaper, faster, and not more of an operational risk over using the cloud-clowns.

Linode offers a shared private network per datacenter.

I did not know that, and was unable to find this information anywhere on the site last time I checked. This is good to know, I'll consider them for bursting.

Linode, except for DDoSs, has been incredibly solid.

Aside from the DDOS incidents Linode is generally very solid in connectivity department, but their communication skills when things go wrong leaves a lot of be desired - often their status page is 20+ minutes behind and has omissions. The way they handled communication on security issues was equally poor.

I'm hoping one or the other will be available at any given time, currently I have 2 droplets with Route53 doing the failover but its still all eggs in one basket. If only we could migrate a backup over to linode/secondary provider would be much easier.

Yeah. Nobody is perfect, but Linode's technical features and support makes up for it in my book.

Thanks, I was leaning towards them myself. Will sign up.

Feel free to show some love: https://www.linode.com/?r=a1baa5d9cdf4db262bb748108359572ffe...

Signed up, ta.

Vultr, OVH, Scaleway all come to mind for hourlies.