It didn't sound like he has come out "on bottom". Rather, it sounds like he's evaluated all the costs and decided that Linode fits his needs better.
The blog post, presumably, is because there are still things that he misses about Heroku, and so even though Linode has come out on top, he wishes that there were some sort of hybrid solution. That, and there may be other people in his situation that haven't yet made the cost/benefit analysis themselves and aren't aware of alternatives.
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It didn't sound like he has come out "on bottom". Rather, it sounds like he's evaluated all the costs and decided that Linode fits his needs better.
The blog post, presumably, is because there are still things that he misses about Heroku, and so even though Linode has come out on top, he wishes that there were some sort of hybrid solution. That, and there may be other people in his situation that haven't yet made the cost/benefit analysis themselves and aren't aware of alternatives.