What about Rackspace Cloud?
Managed cloud at rackspace starts at $100 plus usage charges. Seems a bit high.
Linode Nextgen: The Network
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Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#42I 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…
If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more. I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and it does what I need it to do; I have full control over it, I can give other people access to it, I can run any kind of website on it as long as I don't care too much about performa…
"... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime]"
Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Support matters. When your neighbor is being DDOSed and you're offline as collateral damage, active support is the difference between happy customers and angry customer losses. For hobby boxes, yeah, sure, use whatever is the most cost-efficient.
Linode is great during stable periods but when there is an outage or DDOS they are completely absent. I was sick to death of waiting whilst my Fremont instances were down due to power issues and receiving no response from support tickets. And based on their security incidents Linode is absolutely in the hobby box category as well. At least Amazon is PCI DSS compliant.
I don't know if this is still true, but when I started using Linode some years ago, Fremont was easily their worst datacenter. I've been in Newark without issue for some time now and I heard most of the other datacenters are pretty solid also.
Regarding their support, I've submitted tickets at sometimes very odd hours and gotten responses back within minutes.
What I really find amusing though is that you follow up your complaint of "completely absent during outage" with a reference to Amazon.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#44I 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 have a multitude of VPSs from various hosts (I've used vpslink, slicehost, linode, EC2, azure, prgmr, and about 4 or 5 others I can't remember off the top of my head right now). I usually do all of my web development over ssh, so I generally get a good feel for the latency of a box (as any delay will be immediately noticeable while hacking away in vim). While there are plenty of other solutions out there that offer better raw specs than linode, I've found linode to be the most consistent by far when it comes to performance. Is it a minor detail? Yea, one user with an additional 1 second on their page load out of a hundred isn't a huge deal usually, but when a consistent latency is important I've found linode to be my go-to provider.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. And then you go and try those services, and realize how poor performance and stability is. Having been through several providers, I have personally found nothing that compares.
Err. Linode has pretty average performance compared to the SSD providers. And during my time as a customer Linode was the worst out of all the VPS I had ever tried up until that point. Constant outages at Fremont and heard about the same at London DC as well.
Just logged in to one of my servers in the London DC. 952 days of uptime, so in my case it has been pretty stable over the past couple years.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more. I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and it does what I need it to do; I have full control over it, I can give other people access to it, I can run any kind of website on it as long as I don't care too much about performa…
" ... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime] " Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
Do you consider a 45-minute outage once a month to be acceptable? Maybe for the price, it is.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more. I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and it does what I need it to do; I have full control over it, I can give other people access to it, I can run any kind of website on it as long as I don't care too much about performa…
" ... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime] " Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
It is shitty for infrastructure. 99.9% server uptime means your site might be down for about 44 minutes per month, through no fault of your own--i.e. that does not even take into account scheduled downtime, application problems, DDOS attacks, etc.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're actually running a business off of a VPS, where the cost of downtime far outstrips the monthly bill, it's absolutely worth paying more. I have a VPS I found on lowend box. $5/month for a 512MB OpenVZ. It's a pretty good deal, and it does what I need it to do; I have full control over it, I can give other people access to it, I can run any kind of website on it as long as I don't care too much about performa…
" ... and they tend to scrape by just barely exceeding 99.90% [uptime] " Wow. That sentence makes 99.9% uptime sound really shitty.
0.1% downtime is about 45 minutes per month. Depending on how it's distributed, that can be extremely annoying.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#49I 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…
You advise basing the most critical part of your business on the cheapest offering possible?
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#50I have recently been thinking about moving to digitalocean, because they look like excellent value. I haven't made the move yet because of inertia, and Linode's customer service which is just mind-blowingly good. I suspect that in a couple of days I won't be able to spot a single patch of greener grass on the other side of the proverbial fence.
I really wish DigitalOcean provided more then one core on their plans with < 2gb of memory. Despite that, I am probably going to move to the 512mb plan in the next year or so (once I get around to it). The backup feature is enough incentive alone.