Linode and Amazon
Before this price change, Amazon EC2 instances could breakeven against Linode only if you used less than a few hundred megabytes of traffic each month. Linode now provides much more computing per dollar, but they have much less service granularity, and only recently began to provide post-paid billing.
Linode is a good vendor that has the right price and service levels for small and medium sized business. I hope they survive the cloud price wars.
// The basic $20 package at Linode buys 8 cores (one with priority), 2GB memory, 48GB SDD storage, and 3TB traffic. In comparison, the m1.small instance at EC2 costs $32.21 by itself plus traffic, and 3TB of outbound traffic cost $367.
// The only way to make it comparable is to pre-pay for a year to get a 60% reserved instance discount. And the t1.micro doesn't count for comparison because it basically runs as a background idle process on leftover EC2 resources, if any.)