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True, that is an extreme. It seems like DO is willing to evaluate each case and give the blog host a chance to remedy the situation. Evidence thus far shows that they at least stick to their guns on the troll posts.
A VPS host should have no business censoring "trolls".
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To add to this: I find Digital Ocean's community/blog content impressive. In most instances I can google "Install X on Digital Ocean" and they have a solid, well updated walkthrough.
They've got pretty good bounty program for those who've got the knowledge, and are willing to write easy to understand tutorials. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/get-paid-to-write
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Linode doesn't do hourly billing either. They will credit your account for what you don't use, but you get charged for the month upfront.
They've recently released an hourly billing model into beta: https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=10817
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It works until you want to use PIL or LXML and need to compile a python library with native extensions, or if you want to use a datastore other than google's. At least, you couldn't do those things a few years ago.
Your point about compiled python libraries is correct in principle, but it's worth pointing out the GAE python comes with PIL and LXML (and a bunch of other libraries) pre-installed these days: See https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/li... for a complete list. But,yea if you need a library that's not on that list and uses native extensions, then you're kind of screwed.
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It does seem to be. We are relatively small, and admittedly have a whole bunch of data in S3, but aside from that, our $10K/mo at Rackspace (primarily VMs, some load balancing) is looking to go down to about $6K/month at AWS when we port across 40 or so VMs (then we also don't have to deal with $4K/mo of S3 data transfer, too).
See, I don't get why anyone doing that simply wouldn't just go dedicated. You know you need it, so why pay a huggggeeeeeee premium and get relatively poor performance compared to dedicated for on demand VM services? I get the impression a significantly smaller subset of people using AWS/Rackspace/Azure should actually be using them. Obviously I know nothing about what you're doing, so it may be that you have a perfec…