What is a better virtual server: Linode, Slicehost, Rackspace or Amazon EC2? tccicomputercoaching.com For hosting small applications Linode is better idea and it works very well with S3. I have tried EC2 and Rack space in past and I always had performance issues with them (unresponsive servers because someone else is eating your resources). I think Linode is quite optimized for better performance and especially they never oversell the resources.