I thought several minutes about answering you, but here we go...
I have several DO droplets running, one is running for 4 years now, zero downtime. I heared about some problems but that were no massive outages, but rather single host systems failing, which is no problem, since you should built your application that way that one VM failing is no problem. It happens everywhere, on Bare Metal, on AWS, on Google Cloud, etc.
Linode cut their pricing (or rather improved their plans) and started offering a $5 plan, I don't see how they are too pricey compared to the competition.
You pay a massive amount of money on AWS to be protected against DDoS, otherwise they will just bill you the bandwidth costs (that are very very high compared to those companies compared in the blog post).
I have several DO droplets running, one is running for 4 years now, zero downtime. I heared about some problems but that were no massive outages, but rather single host systems failing, which is no problem, since you should built your application that way that one VM failing is no problem. It happens everywhere, on Bare Metal, on AWS, on Google Cloud, etc.
Linode cut their pricing (or rather improved their plans) and started offering a $5 plan, I don't see how they are too pricey compared to the competition.
You pay a massive amount of money on AWS to be protected against DDoS, otherwise they will just bill you the bandwidth costs (that are very very high compared to those companies compared in the blog post).