I work @ a competitor Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net/cloud - Free Trial message me for extra free credits) but I think the market is segmenting between Digital Ocean which is very aggressively priced, and Linode which is trying to throw in more features and pack alot of value at a higher price point.
Interestingly, the largest providers AWS + Rackspace provide no free bandwidth, while Linode not only included it, but increased it significantly. Will these providers push the bigger guys to start offering free bandwidth which is a significant cost of the product [well, if its used].
Your pricing actually looks _great_ for what I'm trying to do.
With your pricing model I'll have to keep an eye on my bandwidth, but it's pretty competitively priced. ( I'd only run a Bulletin board and a Mumble server w/ ~8 concurrent users. So I should easily be in "tens of GB.")
I'm currently running 2x512mb instances at Rackspace. (It's cheaper than 1x1024 instance, sadly, and I don't need the extra bandwidth/disk space, just the RAM.)
I think I'm going to spin up a trial today. Though I tried to do the same w/ digital ocean and my CC is giving me nothing but headaches. Thanks for the link!
Any thoughts as to why nobody else seems to be competing with a spot market? Plenty of competitors look compelling on a per-hour basis, but if you don't require much bandwidth it's really hard to beat EC2's spot market pricing.
Interestingly, the largest providers AWS + Rackspace provide no free bandwidth, while Linode not only included it, but increased it significantly. Will these providers push the bigger guys to start offering free bandwidth which is a significant cost of the product [well, if its used].