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Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by oinksoft »

rimantas wrote: post #81
nigma wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You prompted me to check mine. 994 days of uptime.

No downtime at all since I got started with them in late 2007, except for a few reboots to activate free loyalty upgrades and one paid upgrade. I've never lodged a support ticket that was left unanswered for more than a minute or two. Very predictable performance and reliable support are huge.

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by giulianob »

shimon_e wrote: post #34

Find this interesting? OVH is already upgrading routers to 100gbps and 500gbps versions. http://www.infinera.com/j7/servlet/NewsItem?newsItemID=336

Their servers seem extremely cheap. Are you basically getting what you pay for with their service or do they have solid uptime and solid support?

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by Matsta »

xur17 wrote: post #50
Expez wrote: post #14

I 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.

Meh DigitalOcean is oversold. Each box has 128gb ram, so you are probably going to be on a server with 100+ other VPS's.

Lots of people have been complaining about network speeds recently:

http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/8339/very-bad-performan...

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by Matsta »

Instead of getting a $20 VPS, why doesn't anyone consider a full dedicated for $12?

http://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml

I realise that people have mixed feelings about OVH, but I've yet to have a problem and 100% uptime. Plus I can max out 100 mbps on the server pretty easily.

Another 2 providers that probably have a better reputation than Linode are BuyVM and RamNode: http://buyvm.net/ http://ramnode.com/

A 512mb is less than half price there and they use SSD's.

But the main thing I'm seeing now for commercial sites, is why don't you use Jekyll and host your site on a CDN like Cloud Files or CloudFront? I'm suprised how cheap it is now to use a full on CDN to host your site. While it's not for everyone, most business sites are just a landing page and a wordpress blog, which would be much more resource efficient if it was hosted on a CDN, plus your pretty much guaranteed 100% uptime.

So for under $20 you can get a SSD VPS and your site hosted on Akamai's CDN or just a $20 box from Linode :/

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by bjxrn »

DigitalJack wrote: post #35
nodesocket wrote: post #11

Linode hands down is the best VPS company. I fully expect SSD drives to be available in Nextgen as well, looking forward to it.

DigitalOcean has been working well for me. They have SSD, but only single core.

Looks like they have up to 4 cores in their standard plans, and up to 24 on their larger plans, all SSD: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by CedarMadness »

yogo wrote: post #36
CedarMadness wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 inco…

Ah, I see. I use Arch on Digital Ocean, and I've had a pretty good experience, aside from their initial image being a bit old (I had to change its settings to use netcfg and systemd).

Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network

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Post by orthecreedence »

jackowayed wrote: post #28
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…

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…

If you're actually running a business, then redundancy is the way to go, not spending more on real hardware. With a VPS, you're able to achieve redundancy fairly easily, provided you have multiple datacenters available (Linode does). Without some sort of failover, a dead server means downtime whether you're dedicated or VPS.

Also, Linode's SLA may be 99.9%, but I've experienced with two businesses, using Linode over the course of four years, about 45 minutes total of downtime (on any given server, not our entire infrastructure). I'd much sooner take years of past experience showing incredibly good uptime over a piece of paper meant to limit liability.

I believe Linode is an excellent choice for small-medium sized online companies.

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