I know I've heard horror stories from DO, and linode gave me a year of hosting to support my education-based startup, so linode FTW imho. They got/won my support so far.. unless/until they do some major blunder, but the IRC support has been pretty astounding too..though I wish they were on Freenode instead of OTC---very annoying getting on another server just for linode support when like EVERY major technical chatroom is on freenode lol