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Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by CedarMadness »

yogo wrote: post #20
pavs wrote: post #10

I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwi…

Are you kidding? I often evaluate offerings from lowendbox and it still surprises me that for many of them images for some of the distros don't even work (solusvm seems to be crappy too). Linode is probably the only company outside of Rackspace (slicehost) to get Arch Linux images right to the point where it works great for production use. The support is always under 5 minutes.

I never used Linode for Arch, what do differently that makes it better than others?

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by mark_l_watson »

pavs wrote: post #10

I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwi…

I think it is probably worth the extra cost. I use another "premium" VPS vendor (RimuHosting) to host all of my Clojure web apps and the extra quality of service is worth it.

I think you do make a good point if you are saying that for some projects the cheapest possible hosting makes sense.

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by yogo »

CedarMadness wrote: post #31
yogo wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you kidding? I often evaluate offerings from lowendbox and it still surprises me that for many of them images for some of the distros don't even work (solusvm seems to be crappy too). Linode is probably the only company outside of Rackspace (slicehost) to get Arch Linux images right to the point where it works great for production use. The support is always under 5 minutes.

I never used Linode for Arch, what do differently that makes it better than others?

It is very stable. I believe it is from having the custom kernel (it seems that whoever puts together image knows how to keep the arch guest and whatever host happy). What you will see with most vps providers with arch is that you purchase a plan, run pacman -Syu then something no longer works (usually the network interface). I don't know exactly what causes the problem, but my understanding is that it is due to incompatibilities with the guest kernel and the host or the technology the host is using. On linode you don't have to install the linux package they usually provide close to the latest (currently 3.7.x).

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by johnward »

machbio wrote: post #13
pavs wrote: post #10

I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwi…

Things dont come cheap, they might be beaten at the price..but the comparison ends at that.. Enterprise Hardware at 20 Dollars does not come cheap, and with their support unlike AWS or anyone else.. they are every bit worth-full

$20 a month is really nothing for supported hosting. I've been testing some of these PAaS offerings and I don't see how so many people can use them. The amount of downtime you see on things like heroku or pretty much anything that use AWS is awful. With my dedicated server I pretty much have no downtime. I see AWS issues all the time.

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by nemesisj »

We run our company using Linode as one of our primary providers. We're very, very happy with their uptimes, control panel, and particularly their support. It's a testament to their professionalism that they've been going about these pretty major changes without experiencing any downtime. I'd highly recommend them.

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by chx »

jcdavis wrote: post #22
spitfire wrote: post #7

Neat. But it's really the hardware size that's the restricting feature of linode. In particular: Memory.

Yea. I'm hoping as part of this nextgen upgrade they announce more RAM. SSDs would of course be nice too, but more RAM is what I want the most

For less than the price of a 4GB linode get a 32GB SSD server from OVH http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/sp_32g_ssd.xml or a multitude of others http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/8302/99-e3-32-gb-list-o... .
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