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11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by jsherer »

geerlingguy wrote: post #4

This is great news; I have, for the past few years, been moving all my lower-end VPSes from Linode to Digital Ocean. I recently told a Linode rep at DrupalCon that I would start moving servers back as soon as they had a lower-cost plan, and it looks like Linode has delivered. Very few of my servers need more than 1 GB RAM, and the CPU and SSDs perform similarly across DO and Linode (for my purposes). I'll still be us…

I concur. I use Ansible for my deployments on Digital Ocean. It would be trivial to move over to Linode because of Ansible's flexibility (which is actually something I consider every time DO has network issues). Hopefully this competition helps both services step up their game.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by opendais »

mcescalante wrote: post #10

Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)

http://status.linode.com/

vs.

https://status.digitalocean.com/

I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;)

Anecdotal: I've seen ~5x as many VPS restarts due to host issues on DO than Linode.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by Touche »

mcescalante wrote: post #10

Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)

DO will take your site offline without even telling you the reason why. Have done it to me multiple times, and only tell me after I file a support ticket. They seem to be disorganized and make decisions separately/randomly.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by xienze »

ausjke wrote: post #6

Have been a satisfied customer with Linode for 7 years. Now I can move my testing site to this new $10/m plan. Meanwhile I'm slightly concerned about the future quality from Linode, as low-priced $10 plan will certainly get lots of customers, but it may also bring down quality from Linode. Popularity normally plays against quality, I hope I am wrong.

> Meanwhile I'm slightly concerned about the future quality from Linode, as low-priced $10 plan will certainly get lots of customers

They've had a $10 plan for a looong time. It's just recently that they got rid of it, and now it's back.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by jsherer »

opendais wrote: post #12
mcescalante wrote: post #10

Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)

http://status.linode.com/ vs. https://status.digitalocean.com/ I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;) Anecdotal: I've seen ~5x as many VPS restarts due to host issues on DO than Linode.

I've saw restarts and networks issues frequently on DO months ago. They seem to have stabilized in the NYC datacenters where I host https://minimalreader.com/ but overall, the stability always seems to be on the edge of collapse. I'm not sure if that's because they are growing so quickly they cannot keep their network and hosts up with the demand, or what.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by bluthru »

sergiotapia wrote: post #7

Compared to DigitalOcean: RAM - Processor - HD - Transfer Linode 1GB - 1 Core - 24GB SSD - 2TB DigitalOcean 1GB - 1 Core - 30GB SSD - 2TB Very compelling pricing, I may actually migrate a pet project of mine to Linode because they have a more robust support system. Now all they need to do is accept Paypal payments because I live in a third world country and do not own an international credit card.

Is there a meaningful difference in CPUs?

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by geerlingguy »

mcescalante wrote: post #10

Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)

I've had five 1GB VPSes running on Digital Ocean for the past year, for http://www.hostedapachesolr.com/. Of the five of them, three seem to have 5-10 minute downtimes about once per week as measured by https://servercheck.in/.

On Linode, I stopped using their 2 GB VPSes for the past year, but before that, I had 3 of them. One had about 5 minutes of unscheduled downtime over the course of a year, the other two only had a few scheduled restarts where Linode emailed me a day or so before it happened.

Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, and I've been extremely happy with both providers (Digital Ocean has been very good, much better than any other sub-$20/month provider until today's news)—but when push comes to shove, I would rather have my more critical VPSes on Linode.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by fideloper »

zapt02 wrote: post #5

Linode is taking up the fight with DigitalOcean! With Linodes great reputation I'm sure a lot of people on DO will be trying their service in the coming weeks.

As a consumer I should enjoy the "race to the bottom" of hosting pricing, but as one who wants to make my own *aaS apps, it's sort of troubling!

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by agwa »

ausjke wrote: post #6

Have been a satisfied customer with Linode for 7 years. Now I can move my testing site to this new $10/m plan. Meanwhile I'm slightly concerned about the future quality from Linode, as low-priced $10 plan will certainly get lots of customers, but it may also bring down quality from Linode. Popularity normally plays against quality, I hope I am wrong.

I share your popularity vs quality concerns. I've been a customer for 9 years and I've noticed two areas where I believe quality has declined in the last ~2 years as a result of their increased popularity:

1. Their support, while still fast, has turned into script-reading drones and I've often been frustrated when trying to deal with more complex issues. They seem to assume everyone is stupid, which I think is a consequence of having many customers.

2. DoS attacks against other customers have gone way up, causing datacenter-wide network outages. I think this is a consequence of having too many non-professional customers who attract the wrong kind of attention. Creating a $10/month plan will certainly not help with this.

Linode has been a great company and they deserve to enjoy the fruits of their success, but it is definitely disappointing as a long-time customer to see quality decline as they grow in popularity.

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