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Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by sadlywebdev »

gre wrote: post #27
ethicalsmacker wrote: post #23

I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?

Hetzner is pretty good.

Can confirm. Have been using them for a while now and they have yet to cause me any issues. Prices are super reasonable, especially for the cheaper instances. Been using them as my static IP vpn for my homeserver for a while now. Maybe they'd be uncomfy if you want a non German owned vps, which is understandable, but $/performance wise, they are pretty damn good

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by bombcar »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #37
sschueller wrote: post #2

My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008. Now I can expect another 20%? I don't understand why there is a cost for IPs other than trying to prevent people from "wasting" them.

Just another reason to put Cloudflare in front of your website so you can have ipv4 and ipv6 with SSL and a WAF for free.

Cloud flare will someday want their money, too.

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by jll29 »

ethicalsmacker wrote: post #43
gre wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hetzner is pretty good.

I'm looking into them, thanks!

I always like the affordability and the no-frills, no-BS Web design of Linode.

Looks like it's time to potentially transition to Hetzner, who I knew as good-quality and GDPR-compliant but didn't have on my radar as particularly low-cost before.

Any other options for low-end experimental boxes? $5/month, anyone?

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by winddude »

j_ckley wrote: post #12
hjr265 wrote: post #10

This news is shared as a banner within the Linode Manager interface with the following text: "Effective 04/01/2023 the price of compute services will change by decreasing transfer fees and updating shared and dedicated plan rates. Read more."

Linode employee here! We're also sending tickets to active customers about this – if you have services with us, you should get a ticket (and email) at some point today.

Or you could tell them to axe the price increases. And maybe axe some management and CEO salaries at akamai, https://www.comparably.com/companies/akamai/executive-salari...

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by tyingq »

nerdjon wrote: post #47
csnover wrote: post #34

The message being sent to customers claims that they “remain more aggressively priced than our peer providers”, which is nonsense as far as I can tell—unless they now consider their “peer providers” to be the likes of AWS, Azure, and GCP? Hetzner Cloud’s price is ~40% of Linode’s new price[0], OVHcloud ~50–60%[1], and Vultr ~80%[2]. Of the big-name VPS providers, I think only DigitalOcean is more expensive now[3], an…

What is really weird about this, they are now more expensive than comparable systems on AWS Lightsail. (Assuming they have not already updated the pricing page on linode.com) https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing So I am really not sure how they are looking at their "peers"

To be fair, though, the lightsail instances that are subject to oppressive throttling aren't really a good comparison. Those should be dirt cheap, as they are useless if you use them in almost any real fashion.

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by dan1234 »

gre wrote: post #27
ethicalsmacker wrote: post #23

I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?

Hetzner is pretty good.

I just wish Hetzner had a UK PoP, I would jump on that in a second!

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by peterangular »

csnover wrote: post #34

The message being sent to customers claims that they “remain more aggressively priced than our peer providers”, which is nonsense as far as I can tell—unless they now consider their “peer providers” to be the likes of AWS, Azure, and GCP? Hetzner Cloud’s price is ~40% of Linode’s new price[0], OVHcloud ~50–60%[1], and Vultr ~80%[2]. Of the big-name VPS providers, I think only DigitalOcean is more expensive now[3], an…

Yep - I just migrated my gaming server to Hetzner a few weeks back. With this increase in price I'll be pushed to migrate my other self-hosted services there as well.

End of an era for me - I've been with Linode for over a decade due to their pricing and positive customer support experiences. And, truth is I haven't used their support for 4-5+ years so... easy decision.

Silver lining here - Hetzner's US datacenters couldn't have opened at a better time!

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by jll29 »

linuxdeveloper wrote: post #17
linuxdeveloper wrote: post #15

Sad but expected price increase on short notice. RIP Linode (2003-2023)

Also, when did backups go from $2/month to $5/month per linode? What a joke.

When backups got more expensive (to $5/m.), ironically, I more often than before got backup errors than before.

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by ilaksh »

winrid wrote: post #35
antoineMoPa wrote: post #32

That's a really anti-hobbyist move. With CAD losing value compared to USD, it means I have been paying more in the last year already. As a tiny hobby developper who has almost no traffic, lower egress fees mean nothing to me and the higher pricing means I'll just kill my projects. I guess they don't care about losing loyal customers and are shifting towards entreprise. It's a bit sad to sell your business to people w…

Most hobbyists will use the $5 machines which are not changing, though.

I've been using Linode for more than a decade. I advise hobbyists not to use the cheapest VPS option and neither do I. Its noticeably less performant and just because you are a hobbyist or whatever doesn't mean you can't spend $10-20 per month.

In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies.

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