If you mess things up in your Linode instance, for example with the filesystem or boot configuration, Linode allows you to run a recovery ISO so you can try and fix things yourself without relying on Linode's support team.

Linode's support is amazing. Tickets are usually answered within minutes, if there's a network or hardware issue it's usually resolved before anyone even notices.

Linode allows you to create memory partitions and copy or move them around. Furthermore, it even lets you reboot your instance with smaller RAM in order to simulate how your application would act if your Linode instance gets downgraded.

Their VPSs are very fast.

The API gives access to nodes, nodebalancers, stackscripts, DNS, and accounts.

SDKs are available for Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, and Node.js.

A new user interface is under development which will still keep the same level of power Linode offers but with a cleaner interface. Showing forward thinking and continued improvement.

Stack scripts gives you the chance to build a completely custom Linode stack with multiple custom features and options all run automatically and set up.