I had been a Linode customer since 2008 and recently migrated to DigitalOcean about 6 months ago. So far my DO experience has been flawless. I needed basic, reliable block storage and at the time, Linode had promised "it's coming" for years. I beta-tested the Linode block storage and it was not stable for me. At the end of the day, Linode has rock solid stability, but they are unfortunately too slow to develop new features, thus I simply had to move on.