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Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by neeleshs » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:55 PM UTC

galactus wrote: post #45

btmorex wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have had the same experience. I have only had to contact them twice, but they were pretty responsive.

Same here. Great support after one of my user accounts was hacked because of poor password selection.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by patio11 » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:56 PM UTC

btmorex wrote: post #27

listic wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm happy you are happy, and am not trying to convert you to Slicehost. That said, a bit on my thought process: I've been with them for years, switching costs are non-trivial in terms of my time (and switching could break stuff), and I have absolute and total confidence in them to treat me well.

I just checked my email. In the last year, I've had three incidents with Slicehost, all connected to issues experienced when migrating VPSes. All were resolved in minutes.

Not to knock Linode, or Rackspace Cloud, or EC2, or whatever, but none of them have ever been in the foxhole with me at 3 AM when the server was down and got it back up before customers noticed.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by dubs » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:56 PM UTC

Enough is enough. Moving to Linode tonight.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by uggedal » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 4:59 PM UTC

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?

After conducting the tests outlined here (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison) I switched from Slicehost to Linode. Apart from two network outages in their Newark datacenter I've been very happy with the switch.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by uggedal » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:00 PM UTC

jbester wrote: post #39

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.

It matches the old Mosso prices minus bandwith. If you use a considerable amount of bandwidth Linode will be more cost effective.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by uggedal » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:01 PM UTC

galactus wrote: post #49

commx wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It is the same thing, no? You could just downgrade back to your old ram, for less money.

Not if you were on their 360MB plan, which I guess probably more than 90% was.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jotto » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:02 PM UTC

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…

if you're concerned with CPU performance at all, then stick with dedicated. VPS is performant, but i think you can yield a decrease of 10-30ms in pageload times from dedicated.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by Dirt_McGirt » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:07 PM UTC

Well, there went my 191 day uptime. Which is incidentally the number of days ago they opened their London datacentre.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by cookiecaper » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:08 PM UTC

btmorex wrote: post #27

listic wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I haven't checked for a while, but when I compared Slicehost and Linode pricing, they were about the same. I stayed on Slicehost for that reason. Slicehost has been great to me, and I like their IRC channel. I see no reason to switch. I guess I'll go compare again soon and if there's a big difference I'll be obliged to switch (very poor), but I haven't had any trouble with Slicehost.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by whyenot » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:08 PM UTC

One thing I personally like about Linode is that they continue to contribute code, sponsor conferences, and otherwise support the open source community. Of course there is a certain amount of self interest involved, but not every VPS hosting company gives back like this.