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Linode has a $10 plan

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Re: Linode has a $10 plan

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Post by kvakvs »

Now still $10 is not $5 plan compared to other virtual server hostings.

Imagine a spherical IT engineer in vacuum, who needs to host a LAMP/Ruby/Python/Whatever website with one and half visitors a day. Will he create larger instance on the same hosting when a customer asks him to host something larger? Sure thing, he will. But will he go and look somewhere else, when he had pleasure of hosting his homepage for months/years? Doubtly. That's a selling point.

Re: Linode has a $10 plan

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Post by kvmosx »

Great, they announced that they'd be doing this a while back. Good to see them finally release it. Linode have always been good for stability, they might not be the cheapest but they have very few network issues and have damn good network speeds.

Re: Linode has a $10 plan

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Post by paukiatwee »

I think Linode is great hosting company. However, if they don't innovate, someone else will catch up soon, especially Linode (since 2003) already around 10 years plus.

I also wondering why they don't offer more services like AWS.

However, AWS recently increase EC2 pricing (almost 100%) for better hardware (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/).

Re: Linode has a $10 plan

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Post by joekrill »

jonalmeida wrote: post #6
general_failure wrote: post #3

At first look, it appears better than Digital ocean.

They're pretty equivalent though. I think DO has the advantage by providing a $5 plan as well for those that are new or what to experiment new stuff on smaller servers first (which is what I do myself).

This is why I went with DO. Linode does appear to be a better value for anything beyond the $10 plan, though -- just from a raw numbers perspective.
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