Be warned that Linode's status page is also borderline useless. Their website and web-based management interface (and API, according to customers on their IRC channel) were throwing 500 Internal Server Errors for >2 hours the other night, and their status page never had any mention of it.

In 4 year it's always worked for me.

edit: years

Ya, they shuffled their prices a month or so ago:

https://www.linode.com/pricing

Its the same 1 Core / 1GB == $10 pricing DO uses. [roughly]