Linode is top tier. Support is great. Interface makes sense. Instances are fast. One of the things that led me to DO was the $5/mo instances though. It's hard to resist a cheap personal server you can host all your legacy projects stuff on.
I don't have a lot of prod code in golang. It's just a gogs server, the rest of is in other languages. All of which the best practice is pulling down requirements (some of which build c-extensions against headers which versions differ) on the server.
As a side note gogs has been really great. For those who don't know you can grab it at https://gogs.io/.
Should be mentioned though that it hasn't always been this way. Before they rebuilt their management infrastructure they were hacked a couple of times and their response was... Not great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756
They've made a lot of progress since then but they were also DDoSed quite heavily recently which brought a lot of downtime.
It was also a pleasant surprise seeing a Brad Fitzpatrick testimonial on their homepage https://www.scaleway.com/
Alternatively you could just add a swap file.
I like the idea of a private, personally controlled VPN for $5/month, but if the CPU limits it to 10Mbps, not worth it.
Would you mind to explain? I am not sure what you mean.
