Linode Birthday Giveaway

#1

Post by SeanOC » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 8:46 PM UTC

Linode Birthday Giveaway
blog.linode.com

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#2

Post by yuvadam » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 8:57 PM UTC

In case you missed it, giveaway starts Tuesday, 12PM EDT.

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#3

Post by GBiT » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 9:40 PM UTC

OVH is giving 10 000 (every day 100-500 ) servers for free to test new USA datacenter. I thinks its more valuable then linoide VPS http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usa_order_beta.xml

Just follow OVH twitter

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#4

Post by X-Istence » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 10:05 PM UTC

GBiT wrote: post #3

OVH is giving 10 000 (every day 100-500 ) servers for free to test new USA datacenter. I thinks its more valuable then linoide VPS http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usa_order_beta.xml Just follow OVH twitter

I hope they keep their prices as low as they have for their european datacenters, because at that point I'll be all over that.

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

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Post by derefr » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 10:14 PM UTC

GBiT wrote: post #3

OVH is giving 10 000 (every day 100-500 ) servers for free to test new USA datacenter. I thinks its more valuable then linoide VPS http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usa_order_beta.xml Just follow OVH twitter

Seems to be over for the day today--when does the "day" start for them? Midnight CET? EST?

Edit: ah, they're making it unpredictable such that you have to follow their Twitter (@OVH) to find out :)

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#6

Post by gojomo » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 10:29 PM UTC

USD$250K is Linode services? Pfft. Linode should be giving away rebates in bitcoin.

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#7

Post by Legion » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 10:39 PM UTC

Not nearly as good as the last two birthdays. :)

2010's brought a massive RAM increase: http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-inc...

2011's bumped disk space up 25%: http://blog.linode.com/2011/06/16/linode-turns-8-disk-space-...

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#8

Post by cremnob » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 11:13 PM UTC

Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheap but fast xen VPS either in Chicago or NYC? (Like under $7/month cheap)

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#9

Post by taligent » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 11:14 PM UTC

I'm still amazed how quick people are to forget what happened with Linode.

Massive security issue (i.e. Bitcoin incident) where hackers got root access to any Linode VPS at the click of a button. Loyal customers were the last to hear about it (through their website no less) and absolutely no proper explanation was or has been given as to what happened, what was done about it and whether it will happen again.

You look at how Cloudflare handled their issue and it's night and day. Linode are one of the least transparent providers going around IMHO.

Re: Linode Birthday Giveaway

#10

Post by taligent » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 11:21 PM UTC

cremnob wrote: post #8

Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheap but fast xen VPS either in Chicago or NYC? (Like under $7/month cheap)

Could be worth sifting through some of these:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104

Otherwise I would definitely post in the main forum.