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Amusingly, I am trying to log in to the dashboard to reboot my nodes, but it requires a verification code which was sent to my email, which is hosted on Linode.
Consider signing up to a service like MXGuardian that your MX records can point to, and that then forward email to your server. This will give you an “emergency inbox” that you can use in cases like this (might also help with spam depending on how you are currently dealing with that).
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this.... replaces the use of DHCP with a static file rewriter on boot, OK, why is this recommended in general, should we expect DHCP to have ongoing issues that their "network helper" would not ?
For the vast majority of people, a Linode is just a virtual server that sits on a static IP like a fat toad. This network helper just assigns that static IP instead of assuming DHCP will find it. You could turn it off later I guess.
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Switch to Pair - https://www.pair.com/ - they are older than Linode and have a great reputation. (PS: However, I am not sure if they have been acquired by another company now. The "old" Pair had a sterling reputation, and I can vouch for that as a former customer.)
Pair is absolutely not price-competitive. Pair's "Starter I" plan is $30/mo, for 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB storage, and 500 GB transfer. Linode's most similar plan ("Linode 2 GB") is $10/mo, and includes 2 TB transfer.
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Switch to Pair - https://www.pair.com/ - they are older than Linode and have a great reputation. (PS: However, I am not sure if they have been acquired by another company now. The "old" Pair had a sterling reputation, and I can vouch for that as a former customer.)
I'm paying for a few small Linux VMs. Pair has nothing all price competitive. They're also now part of a giant media company (!), so yeah, pass.
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I don't think that will happen with Linode (but I certainly could be wrong). When Rackspace bought Slicehost, people didn't really know what the future was going to look like. At this point, we've seen AWS/GCP/Azure and Akamai wants to have their own "run your apps with us" system. Unlike when Rackspace bought Slicehost, Linode probably isn't even the leader in its niche. That's probably DigitalOcean. Akamai probably…
Akamai looks at Cloudflare's valuation with envy (and some contempt because Akamai has the larger edge network). Definitely agree Linode was purchased as a growth opportunity.
If Akamai was also free and as accessible as Cloudflare, they would start to grow for sure.
That’s too bad. Which other vps hosts are folks using these days besides aws/azure/gc? If anyones thinking of switching to digitalocean, I’m currently switching linode from digitalocean who had an unforgivable, catastrophic loss of vm. Digitalocean also prevebts customers from downloading disk image backups offsite for any kind of adult DR. Linode lets you download backup images right from the admin console.
That’s too bad. Which other vps hosts are folks using these days besides aws/azure/gc? If anyones thinking of switching to digitalocean, I’m currently switching linode from digitalocean who had an unforgivable, catastrophic loss of vm. Digitalocean also prevebts customers from downloading disk image backups offsite for any kind of adult DR. Linode lets you download backup images right from the admin console.
For what it’s worth, I’ve been a Linode customer for about 12 years and have never had a problem. This current issue does not even affect me as my boxes are on static IPs. My setup consists of a number of Linode VPSes, a single Hetzner Box in Germany, and an S3 glacier bucket (the only Amazon service I use) for backups. It’s probably not optimal, especially for the business case, but it works for all my hobby and sid…
I’ve had linode for a very long time.
Not leaving them because of how good their tech support is or was to help me early on in my career, but they can’t be a point of failure either.
I’ll just get to see how easily a hybrid cloud might be orchestrated like yours. Things are drastically easier to learn to setup and maintain like you have said compared to 5 or 10 years ago.
Docker is docker, and traefik is traefik.
That’s too bad. Which other vps hosts are folks using these days besides aws/azure/gc? If anyones thinking of switching to digitalocean, I’m currently switching linode from digitalocean who had an unforgivable, catastrophic loss of vm. Digitalocean also prevebts customers from downloading disk image backups offsite for any kind of adult DR. Linode lets you download backup images right from the admin console.
Hetzner looks good.
I have also heard iWeb is or was a good choice for value. Montreal data centres can be a well kept secret.
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Hetzner looks good.
Thanks I’ll revisit them. Had a lot of dedicated servers in my past and turned the self hosting part of my brain off I have also heard iWeb is or was a good choice for value. Montreal data centres can be a well kept secret.
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Out of curiosity what is a new competitor going to offer that the existing well established ones like DigitaoOcean, Vultr, etc arent?
DigitalOcean doesn't have much Asian presence, Linode's backup doesn't support non default file system like zfs, DO / Linode don't have HDD block storage like Vultr does (which I think is a hidden gem you can't realize until you go add one as it's not mentioned in the pricing page) that can be a very nice option to throw backup data in at 40GB/$. Vultr's CPU isn't as good as the other 2 by the look of sysbench, even…
Linode have had block storage for ages, I use them for ZFS.