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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by highstep on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:08PM (#7606779)
Beware of super cheap VPS providers. A couple years ago I got burned by a provider called VBOX that was highly recommended on lowendbox.com. At first the service was ok, but a few months later my server and VBOX business were completely unresponsive.

Sure you'll save some money, but you might also waste hours of your time setting up a server that could one day disappear into thin air.

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Re:The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more by jon-wood on Friday April 18, 2014 @05:32AM (#7608570)
So long as you have deployment automated, and frequent backups, that shouldn't be a huge issue. One of the many advantages of not having to manually deploy a new box is being able to rapidly get off a bad provider.
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