WEB HOSTING: what are the cool kids in the U.S. using? What do you look for?

[OrganizedFellow]

I've always relied on Digital Ocean because I liked the task of setting up a LAMP stack and having that stack be a nearly identical setup as my development Linux laptop. I've always gone with Ubuntu or Debian and I follow the same tutorial (in my signature) so I get the same results across the setups.

I have been out of the web development game for a few year. I have been focusing on family stuff.

I recent quick Google comparison between Digital Ocean and Linode revealed that Linode was faster across many tests and has better docs and support/service. The last time I used a shared hosting service was with Site5 about a year ago.

 

What do YOU look for when shopping for a host (here in the States)?

Who do YOU use now?

[apeisa]

Upcloud is pretty nice.