On 27 Apr 2011, at 11:20 PM, Nicolas Tostin wrote:

Linode was also one of my original choice, but the price is the same, I'm not very comfortable paying $160/mo for a 4GB VPS when OVH give me much more power for half the price.
I may be too stubborn and focalized on this provider :D

Yes. ;-)

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Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [support] Any dedicated server hosting to recommend ?

We've been using Linode - they've been great. They also have some great scripts that you can use to provision your hardware.

http://linode.com

Cheers,

Bill

Agreed. I can't recommend linode.com highly enough. 

Their support is amazing, and I doubt you'll find a negative review from anyone in the OSS community.

You don't get cpanel with fantastico, et al (but you can install them yourself) - and a 4Gb RAM / 128Gb HDD server, + 1.6Tb trf is only $160 p/m. You can add automated backup facilities to that for an extra fee, or just make snapshot backups in a separate partition.

You can't compare dedicated servers to VPS, though you do get stock 4 processor Xen instances on linode.com, along with shared, mirrored, drives. I had a look at OVH, and they do look  really impressive - but at the price I have to seriously wonder how they manage those specs.