You should add a search tool on there so I can look at all the 4 core instances

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Paid support
How to ask for help
1. Give details of your problem
2. Post any errors
3. Post relevant logs.
4. Don't hide details i.e. your domain, it just makes things harder
5. Be polite or you'll be eaten by a grue

This is Linode's forum. It's unrealistic (and unfair to Linode) to expect people here to speak highly about another provider.

Your friend should've pointed you to lowendtalk [dot] com. Sign up there and ask away

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sleddog

Sorry to dredge up an old topic, but I JUST got the notification from the forum about this post being updated...a month ago. Talk about taking a serious electron detour!

That being said, I wasn't asking anyone to speak ill of Linode and I'm sorry if the initial post was worded in a way that conveyed that.

What I was looking for were posts just like I got, that really shows why people justify Linode's higher costs. I too am happy to pay a higher price if the feature set / service / etc. is right, and I share many of the opinions people mentioned regarding service, the control panel, etc. I just have no other experience to compare it to whereas I know others have used other VPS providers and possibly felt the pain of that mistake.

I'm always looking for the best deal which is why I asked, and I enjoyed reading the responses people posted. Thanks sleddog for the link to LowEndTalk, I might read around there a bit. I figure though, for how little I'd be saving (since I'm only on a 512), I'll stick with the provider I know and can trust. Gotta say, I love sub-5-minute response times from the service desk...at 10pm EST. I know a lot of companies where 5 minutes is unheard of for response time!