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I liked #DigitalOcean, and I really liked #Linode. In the case of Linode, my sole reason for leaving is that they wanted to autobill my credit card each month. As for DO, that was my main reason, but a secondary reason was that their resource limiter consistently killed database processes ( #MariaDB and #PostgreSQL ) ... I couldn’t even upgrade MariaDB directly. I would have to do a DB dump, uninstall, reinstall, import the DB; and I had to follow that process each time there was a software update for MariaDB.
I would much rather pay for a year at a time, then about a month before the next payment is due, I get an e-mail reminder that payment is due by X date at Y time in Z timezone.
But if you’re in a place where that payment plan works for you, both of them were great places to host things over the years. I liked Linode a little more than I liked Digital Ocean, but your experience could be the opposite.