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Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

teilo wrote: post #20

I 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 kne…

Interesting experience. I've got three or four sites on Webfaction. So far, ssh on a shared server plus the admin panel has been a sweet spot for me between configurability and not having to manage my own server. However, I've noticed an increase in downtime periods over the past few months and I'm starting to have concerns about the reliability of the service.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by commx »

megamark16 wrote: post #21

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...

The prices didn't change... you just get more RAM for the same money :).

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by ashleyw »

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.

With the 512MB Slice, you're paying around $18/mo more than the lowest end Linode for very similar features. What exactly do you get for that $18?

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by wrs »

siculars wrote: post #13
trevorturk wrote: post #3

I'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.

FYI: Slicehost has 32-bit images now.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by pavs »

barredo wrote: post #26

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 fro…

Depends on how process hungry your server is, if you constantly maximizing quad core xeon server, then its not a direct comparison in processing. But if you are using processing speed of a dual core, then I think you should move.

They might give you four "virtual cores" but its not a direct comparison to a xeon server. In everything else, memory space and transfer, you are better off moving.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by paolomaffei »

barredo wrote: post #26

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 fro…

at $30 per month you'll get $360/year from switching, is that more or less the cost of the time to switch?

a part from this, linode service and facilities (such as instant backup and restore) are great, don't know about softlayer's

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by axod »

spicyj wrote: post #24
jwr wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$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/ .

The transfer is a bit poor on prgmr though. $20 gets you 160GiB vs 200 on Linode. Also overage charges on Linode are pretty cheap (half what they are on slicehost).

Depends if you need ram/disk/transfer though.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jbester »

trevorturk wrote: post #3

I'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?

I've tried slicehost, linode, and mosso (now rackspace - cloud servers) they were all pretty similar. I think the new linode pricing now matches the old mosso pricing.
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