This is the third time they've had a critical breach in the past 5 or so years, and that's excluding all the DDoS downtime they've had in that time span. I stopped using them after their second breach, and frankly am glad I did. I'm very happy with Digital Ocean.

I just wish DO hardware has a bit faster (or not so over-subscribed?). All of our tests show Linode beat DO hands down for at similar price points.

True. But DO seems to have more downtimes. I have had several scheduled forced reboots, some network downtime and just plain outages.

I've only had one in the past year I've been using them.

Wow. Disappointing that I found out about this here, 7 hours after it was posted, before hearing anything from Linode.

I was a Linode customer back when it first happened.

I found out on Slashdot/Reddit first and got the email from Linode about 3 days later. I have known ever since then that Linode is the type of provider you don't want to be involved with. A VPS provider has one responsibility above all else: be honest and transparent.