Serious question: why would I want to use Linode over GCP or AWS? Asking as someone who hasn’t really dabbled with smaller cloud providers. Is it cost? Support? Developer tooling?
It took me a while to even find GCP's cost calculator and the AWS one required me to make an account before using it. I spent days looking through documentation an learning all the nomenclature ("elastic beanstalk - seriously??") so I could even start to understand the calculator. Their structure is incredibly convoluted (compute+load balancing+database+database storage+block storage+content delivery+container managment...), making it near impossible to know how much I would end up spending. Not to mention that the prices and performance vary wildly (reserved vs hot vs cold compute).
My rough estimate would've put me at around 3x the cost compared to Linode and I'd be living in fear of the bill every month. Linode told me exactly how much of what I would be getting and how much I'd have to pay - in words, not ec2_t2.micro_us-west_reserved.