The credit card break in caused me a lot of grief. It just blew my mind how something so important would not be treated as such. If you do not take care of the basics, I cannot trust you with my code.

For most of my smaller needs, I use webfaction (web hosting and vps). Which has been very good. Costs more, but their support is very good. Bigger things go to Amazon.

I did not have hardware issues with Linode. Wish you the best of luck. Hopefully they have learned and taken security seriously since the last breach.

It wasn't the fact that they were hacked, it happens, it was the way they handled it. Their official statement read "We have found no evidence that any Linode data of any other customer was accessed. In addition, we have found no evidence that payment information of any customer was accessed."

It was only after the hacker publicly posted detail of the hack that linode admitted that the hacker did have access to their customer database including encrypted credit card details.

Even then they failed to make it clear that the hacker claimed to have a copy of their encryption key (they made no attempt to deny this either).

All of Linode's press releases were written in a fashion designed to make Linode look as good as possible rather than attempting to protect their customers.

I used to be a fan of Linode but I cancelled all of my contracts with them as a result of their terrible handling of the situation.