In reply to Chris Cree.

Same with us. However we manage over 50 clients' hosting. They spent a month convincing us that these new Linode servers were top of the line, fast-loading, reliable. After over 24 man-hours we finally got all of the A Records switched over to Linode on Christmas Eve. Literally within hours, the DDoS attacks began, and WPEngine began migrating people *away* from Linode! To RackSpace - the server they had urged us to migrate away from in the first place! It's not WPE's fault; they're only trying to select the best hosting option for their customers. But still, this scenario has been extremely unfortunate and has resulted in 100's of hours of combined downtime for our clients, and I have the half-empty bottle of Aspirin to prove it.