Hi,
if you want, feel free to use my referral code while signing up. I've already posted that code elsewhere on the forum, but I don't mind helping you out with that as well.
If you remain an active customer (with a billable Linode) for 90 days I can receive a service credit.
The nice thing is that if you do this as well, you two if people use your code can get $20 on your Linode account as well.
Credits can be useful for paying for Linode services without your card being charged if you want to do that.
Also, you can always make advanced pre-payments in prety much any dollar amount I believe, and you don't have a limit on credit (pro-rated or otherwise) on your account, and that credit if not used doesn't expire.
It's still money costing you in the end anyhow, but that's a nice benifit of Linode that I'm sure everyone has used at one time or antoher.
You will be taken to the Linode home page when you click this link, but if you click the sign up box my code will already be in the box if you choose to use it.
Any other new users who see this thread are more than welcome to use the code as well.
Thanks, and God Bless.
http://goo.gl/o8ITq