How much is the extra traffic, again?
200GB of traffic included seemed good at the time, but it doesn't already. I'm seeing (and using) more offers lately that have much more traffic included.
Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase
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#12And the tumbleweeds continue to roll across SliceHost... which is stuck in 2008.
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#13I've been a happy Slicehost customer for a long time, but I've heard good things about Linode and liked using them well enough during Rails Rumble... This price difference is pretty tempting. Does anyone that's made the switch from Slicehost to Linode care to tell us about their experience?
Both Slicehost and Linode have top notch service. I switched because of price/ram and 32bit support. I found that the overhead on a 64bit machine on low ram instances is just not worth it for the kind of stuff I'm doing now.
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#14And the tumbleweeds continue to roll across SliceHost... which is stuck in 2008.
Price isn't everything.
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#15My sole reason for picking Linode for hosting was RAM, as there was no one else out there who matched the RAM for the price. And now, WOW, I am a very happy customer. Thank You, Linode!!!
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#16Wow, a lot cheaper than Slicehost now. $20/month gets you 256 MB on Slicehost and 512 MB on Linode.
$15.20/month gets you 512MB on fivebean.com. I've been quite happy with them so far.
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#17This may be the final kick in the pants to switch over from Slicehost.
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#18And the tumbleweeds continue to roll across SliceHost... which is stuck in 2008.
Price isn't everything.
It's true that price isn't everything, and to some degree, web hosting is a funny market: it's really easy/visible to compete on price/features, but you only notice the service when things go awry (at least for someone like me who doesn't particularly need hand holding), and then you really want to be dealing with people who know their stuff and take their jobs seriously.
That said, I've never got the impression Linode was giving me anything less in terms of service than similar outfits.
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#19Time to move my last few servers from Slicehost to Linode.
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#20I switched from Webfaction to Linode about six months ago, because the WF server I was on kept experiencing hard drive failures leading to an unacceptable amount of downtime. Once is tolerable, but they should have replaced the drive then. They didn't, and two months later it failed again. Again they tried to repair the filesystem. It failed two days later again. When I challenged them on this, they admitted they knew the drive was bad, and that it had no redundancy (seriously?!!!), but blamed the guys managing the hardware (which is evidently NOT Webfaction). Not to mention a ridiculously slow control panel at random times.
Linode has been a dream-come-true. I pay only a few bucks more a month than I did for my Tier-4 plan at Webfaction. Plus, I'm back to managing my own server and no longer have to deal with all the Apache port-forwarding weirdness, local profile software installs, etc.
I've used other VPS hosting companies in the past, but Linode blows them all out of the water. Their VPS infrastructure is very well engineered, and fast. Nobody can touch their price/performance ratio. EDIT: BTW - I am excluding OpenVZ-based VPS's which come with a number of issues that I don't care to deal with.