[ale] [OT] Cloudatcost bait and switch?

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 07/03/2017 01:20 PM, Ben Coleman wrote:
> I use to be on Digital Ocean until Linode had their latest round of
> "increasing the RAM while keeping the price the same" (which Linode does
> every couple of years).  Now a 1GB RAM droplet is $10.00/month, while a
> 1GB RAM Linode is $5.00/month (so you *can* beat DO's price).  I haven't
> had a bad experience with Linode's customer service, either.

Besides Linode being hacked and denying it for a while?
http://www.securityweek.com/how-attackers-likely-bypassed-linodes-two-factor-authentication-hack-pagerduty

Everyone will be hacked eventually, but how they handle the aftermath
matters just as much.