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Linode recently replaced the AjaxTerm based web console with a Shell-in-a-box version. Also you can always access the console using SSH to the host instead of the web version.

Linode storage comes bundled with a virtual machine! The more you pay, the more RAM, network transfer quota, and better CPU contention you get - without any extra costs. It's hardly an apples to apples comparison.

There's no such thing as a "cloud server" that sits atop a cluster of machines and pools resources together like RAM into a single instance. VPS and Cloud Servers are identical. It's just marketing. TO THE CLOUD!

Any virtualized Linux instance boils down to a VM running on a single host server. This is true at Linode, Amazon, Rackspace Cloud Servers, etc.

Xen and KVM instantiate a virtualized kernel per VM. Virtuozzo is a container/enhanced jail and runs under the host's kernel.

backup is not a verb

FWIW, one can swap/move IPs between Linodes within the same facility, too.

Submit a ticket and we'll help you out.

Linode provides 512 all the way to 20G instances, fwiw.

http://status.linode.com/ had updates all throughout the issue.

> This means DNS queries will not resolve for government employees if they point to Linode hosted machines.

This is total FUD. Please check your statements for accuracy.

It's pro-rated to the day - so if you add a Linode for the month but remove it after one day, you've ended up being credited back all but $0.67, in the case of a Linode 360.

You can run FreeBSD on Linode: http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/BSD_Howto - However, last I checked, FreeBSD under Xen didn't support SMP (or 64 bit).