The author has migrated from Digital Ocean to Linode due to disagreements with Digital Ocean's recent donation to a controversial project. They sought to deploy a Guix image on Linode, but found the existing documentation unsatisfying as it involved converting a Debian image to Guix. Instead, they created a custom Guix image that can be uploaded to Linode, which includes features such as virtual disk support, automatic root file system resizing, SSH server setup, and IPv6 address configuration via DHCP. The author has shared their code for achieving this, providing a ready-to-use Guix image for Linode.