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Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by megamark16 » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:10 PM UTC

Here's a google cache of their homepage before, for quick comparison to what's up now, for anyone like me who didn't have their old prices memorized:

New prices: http://www.linode.com Old prices: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kVmwiN5...

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by yurylifshits » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:10 PM UTC

I am with linode and pretty happy with the experience

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by bigsassy » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:11 PM UTC

bbatsell wrote: post #9

bigsassy wrote: post #4

Wow, that's really great. Makes me feel better about the outages we've been dealing with at the Dallas center. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1392700

Yeah, they've really been annoying, but other than those, I have nothing but wonderful things to say about Linode.

Agreed. I was a very satisfied customer before this announcement, and I remain so afterwards.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by spicyj » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:13 PM UTC

jwr wrote: post #16

imp wrote: post #5

Wow, 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.

And $12 gets you 512MB on http://prgmr.com/.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by hack_edu » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:13 PM UTC

Linode is still second to Chunkhost in terms of value at the low-end, free-beta and beta tester discounts aside. Chunkhost has had 512mb for a year now, and still offers 20% more disk space. In my experience Linode's network speeds to be much less consistent and, at their peaks, considerably slower.

Yes, all this probably change when Chunkhost goes stable.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by barredo » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:15 PM UTC

I have a question about VPS, hope someone could help and not be much offtopic:

I have a dedicated server (in Softlayer) with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB (which I only use 5 or 6, so it's not an issue) and 2000Gb transfer. Price is 189$ a month.

Is it worth to switch to Linode's 4GB ram plan? I was thinking in getting a new server in softlayer with 12-16GB ram.

tl;dr: is it worth switching from a dedicated to a vps with similar specs?

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by btmorex » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:16 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #14

mitchellh wrote: post #12

And the tumbleweeds continue to roll across SliceHost... which is stuck in 2008.

Price isn't everything.

That's true. On the other hand, Linode is competitive on price and service. Every ticket I've submitted has gotten a response within a couple hours. That's pretty good considering how much I'm paying. Honestly, I don't know why someone would get a vps from a different company.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by zefhous » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:16 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #14

mitchellh wrote: post #12

And the tumbleweeds continue to roll across SliceHost... which is stuck in 2008.

Price isn't everything.

What is preferable about Slicehost compared to Linode? They seem extremely similar to me (I've researched it a fair amount), except that Linode's prices are way better.

I've been with Linode for over a year and never regretted it. This RAM upgrade and a disk space upgrade earlier certainly help!

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by listic » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:21 PM UTC

zefhous wrote: post #28

listic wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Price isn't everything.

What is preferable about Slicehost compared to Linode? They seem extremely similar to me (I've researched it a fair amount), except that Linode's prices are way better. I've been with Linode for over a year and never regretted it. This RAM upgrade and a disk space upgrade earlier certainly help!

I think that many choose Slicehost because they don't care about price all that much and/or believe it will be more stable (which may or may not be true)

I, for one, prefer to use VPS that is cheaper than that, offers more traffic and I believe will still be good enough.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by zefhous » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:22 PM UTC

listic wrote: post #11

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.

They aren't very draconian about overages — they won't shut you down if you go over.

$0.10/GB if purchased in advance, $0.15 retrospectively.

Also, if you have multiple linodes your bandwidth is pooled.

http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#what-if-i-go-over-my-monthly-n...