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Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by axod » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:09 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #52

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'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 whe…

I think both have great support. They both have active and lively IRC channels where staff hang out. It's usually very quick to resolve issues with slicehost and linode.

The pain point for me at slicehost was bandwidth - they charge a lot, linode charge a little. Also far more options on linode etc etc once I moved that all added up to a better experience.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by pdx » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:19 PM UTC

I was on Slicehost, and I really struggled with whether to change to Linode. It's not that I was having any problems with Slicehost. I loved it. I just kept looking at that extra RAM on Linode, and all those data centers.

When they got the UK data center, that clinched it. I had been hoping to someday expand to UK, so when Linode did that, I changed over that day.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jread » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:27 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…

We've done some performance and price comparisons of different providers including Linode and Slicehost (a.k.a. RackspaceCloud). In that price range there are a lot of options you could consider with cloud providers. Although cloud is generally (but not always) multi-tenant, many provide dedicated CPU cores so CPU performance is very predictable. One advantage to cloud also, is that oftentimes the OS runs of an external SAN so if the physical host machine does fail, it can be immediately migrated to another host with very little downtime. There are other benefits like backup images and instant upgrading.

http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/05/what-is-ecu-cpu-benchma... http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2010/06/disk-io-benchmarking-in...

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jread » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:34 PM UTC

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

Linode has 5 data centers. I've maintained a node in each of them the past six months with the following results:

Dallas: 99.959% Newark: 99.971% London: 99.986% Fremont: 99.992% Atlanta: 100%

I've heard from others here that Atlanta has been a very reliable LN data center for them as well.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jules » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:34 PM UTC

A stupid question: why are the bigger linodes relatively more expensive? You get 512MB for $19.95 and 1024MB for $39.95. If you buy 2x512MB, don't you get twice as much CPU too?

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jread » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:40 PM UTC

uggedal wrote: post #55

jbester wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not only that, but Linode doesn't cap bandwidth based on node size. I've been able to get up to almost 200 Mb/s out of a Linode 360 whereas the smallest slice (256) is capped at 10 Mb/s

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by xinsight » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:41 PM UTC

In terms of iPhone apps, linode easily beats slicehost. Nice graphs for CPU, network, etc. And last i looked, slicehost required you to make a URL with you API key and mail it to yourself, which is a huge PITA.

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jules » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:43 PM UTC

tbrownaw wrote: post #44

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…

That depends on what % of your cpu you're using, and how sensitive you are to disk bandwidth. Look at what fraction of the host machine you get ("How many Linodes share a host", http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm ), do you use more than that fraction of the resources that would be shared (disk I/O, CPU time)? How much is having a nice web interface for rebooting and such worth?

> Linodes of the same plan are grouped together onto a host. We adjust the number of slots on each host according to its resources and hardware specification. On average, a Linode 512 host has 40 Linodes on it. A Linode 768 host has on average 30. Linode 1024 host: 20 Linodes; Linode 1536 host: 15; Linode 2048 host: 10; Linode 4096: 5.

Does this mean that a 512 host has 40*512MB = 20GB of physical RAM? If it is less than that, then where does the 512 figure come from?

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by jules » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:45 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #8

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 wrote a fairly well-received article about my switch. Since I switched, I have been happy with Linode.

Link?

Re: Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase

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Post by avar » Wed, Jun 16, 2010, 5:46 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?

I moved from Slicehost to prgmr to Linode. I like Linode the best of the three.