Been using linode for 3 years now for a little instance to do basic stuff on. Its only ever been down once for a move to a new, faster, host. Even that they gave significant notice for and plenty of time for me to move it (I chose when to move it).
Linode Nextgen: The Network
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Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How are you able to achieve such long durations of uptime ? Don't you need to reboot your machine for updates ?
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#143Earlier 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…
Could you buy two cheap VPSs from different suppliers? That way you'd have redundancy and save money?
Depends on your site, and how trivial it is to balance it between two locations, keep it in sync, add in a way to switch over, etc.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
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I have had a mixed bag with LEB deals. Forced me to figure out how to run my apps Ina distributed fashion, which was fun. Currently with ThrustVPS where I pay $8/month. They have been solid for about two years now. BuyVM also seems to have great reputation on LEB.
Done both ThrustVPS and BuyVM. ThrustVPS: bought it, selected Debian 6. VPS stopped booting. Then they tell me that it doesn't work so I get them to install Ubuntu instead. 1 week later it goes down due to "network issues". (probably for several hours, can't be bothered to login to look at the ticket again). BuyVM: bought it to see how it was, VPS went down in the first couple of days. Never bothered to try it again.…
buyvmstatus isn't run by us.
They are entirely ping based so if someone gets a flood, ICMP will go to the garbage while a nullroute kicks in a second or two later.
We have an internal nodeping that monitors other services on the nodes that we're likely going to make public since more than a few people seem to get that idea about buyvmstatus.
We actually provided the buyvmstatus developer a read-only HTTP page he was able to pull off each node to get the current uptime of the node but he's yet to actually work it into the system.
Stock wise check back never week and we'll be reloaded on every plan in our Vegas location :)
Thanks for the interest and kind words,
Francisco
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#145I 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?
So I should be registering my domain with Network Solutions for $34.99/year, right?
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#146I 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 never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode This is true now (Linode is a premium vps provider) but it was not always true. Linode started out cheap, like almost everyone in our industry does. Linode was one of the first in the market; they've been selling VPSs longer even than I have. >Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway fr…
Is linode announcing their own netblocks under their own ASN, though? My impression has been that you have more diversity of immediate upstreams than linode...
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode This is true now (Linode is a premium vps provider) but it was not always true. Linode started out cheap, like almost everyone in our industry does. Linode was one of the first in the market; they've been selling VPSs longer even than I have. >Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway fr…
Is linode announcing their own netblocks under their own ASN, though? My impression has been that you have more diversity of immediate upstreams than linode...
No idea. I'm on he.net and cogent right now; I'm working on getting more routes, but it's pretty irritating. I have been having some trouble reaching folks on comcast in the midwest, so I contacted comcast and asked about paid peering (they think they are hot shit, so there is no way they would settlement-free peer with me)
They want three grand for a 1g peering link. And they aren't on any of the silicon valley peering exchanges (meaning I'd need to pay for a connection direct to them, on top of the three grand.) that is /per month/ He.net charges around $750-1000 per month for a gigabit of transit to the whole internet.
It's pretty irritating. I mean, I'd pay a couple hundred bucks a month for reliable connectivity to comcast only, even though, traditionally, peering is free, and it would improve both my network and theirs. I mean, it was their customer who complained to my customer who complained to me.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#148Earlier 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.
How are you able to achieve such long durations of uptime ? Don't you need to reboot your machine for updates ?
My attack surface on that particular machine is sufficiently low (everything off except keyed SSH and nginx) and the machine's duties so minor that I don't bother.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#149If you went from 200GB to 2000GB, you increased 200GB 10 times, you increased it by 1800GB, you increased it by 900%, not 1000%. Just sayin'.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#150Earlier 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…
Could you buy two cheap VPSs from different suppliers? That way you'd have redundancy and save money?
I've been looking at cheap VPSes over the last few months, as I don't really want to spent $20/mo on Linode anymore for a static site and VPN. I've tried a number of different providers, and they've all had issues.
Things I've experienced:
- being rebooted without notice
- poor performance (IO and / or CPU)
- provider being DDOSed
- provider moving to a new DC and telling people not to give out IPs (???) due to being DDOSed
- hosts running old virtualisation software which doesn't support recent versions of Linux, so I'm can't use an OS newer than Ubuntu 10.04
- provider being banned by PayPal then suspending my account being I couldn't pay then
- provider going out of business
I liken it to poor quality manufactured goods. Take the Android tablets you can get for less than $100. If you can afford it, you would never buy one just to save money, because it is much less hassle to spent another $100 and get something that works well.
It just isn't worth it, especially not for a business. I would love to see someone who can make a proper fault tolerant system that works on these type of machines though :)