11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan • Hacker News Board

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by recursive » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

ralfn wrote: post #45

ekar45 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)

I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs. If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example. C…

Serious question: Other than a credit card, how can you pay for things online? Paypal? Bitcoin?

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by SudoAlex » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

guylhem wrote: post #55

I'm new to linode. What is their outgoing bandwidth policy? I mean, is it possible to automatically set up a throttle, to avoid charges when going over 2TB? (or do I have to fiddle with iptables to find a way to do that). Also, do you know if it's possible to get a /48 IPv6? On https://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6 they only mention /56 I'd hate to run a HE tunnelbroker just because they don't support that :-/ (…

You can get a /56 - which should still be sufficient for most users needs.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by ahmett » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:07 PM UTC

Note, DigitalOcean has a $5 plan, and works quite fine for my case where I host tons of small traffic websites and background tasks.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by thecosas » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

Just downgraded to this. Half the price of the $20/m plan. Never really needed all they were giving me. Woo hoo!

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by romaniv » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:13 PM UTC

shiven wrote: post #60

ralfn wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs. If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example. C…

Why are credit cards 'evil'? Honest question. I mean they don't go spend themselves, are protected 100% against fraud (in the US at least) and if paid in full every month, cost nothing to the card holder. If anything, it is not a company's fault that Northern Europe has social/cultural hang-ups for a mode of payment !

Because credit card system is not sustainable without various hidden fees, overdrafts, default rates and so on.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by guiomie » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:13 PM UTC

ralfn wrote: post #45

ekar45 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)

I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs. If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example. C…

From my experience, getting your money back from a debit card hack is way harder then a credit card. That is why I travel and pay online with my Visa ...

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by rimantas » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:13 PM UTC

kukkukb wrote: post #28

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 can only give you anecdotal evidence on two Linodes we use: root@web1:~# uname -a Linux web1.netstock.co 3.9.3-x86-linode52 #1 SMP Mon May 20 09:32:28 EDT 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux root@web1:~# uptime 15:29:46 up 328 days, 13:16, 4 users, load average: 0.30, 0.15, 0.12 and root@li346-160:~# uname -a Linux li346-160 3.7.5-linode48 #1 SMP Thu Jan 31 14:40:54 EST 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux root@li346-160:~# upt…

My server had 1000+ days uptime before it had to be restarted (migration/upgrade).

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by phaedryx » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

misterbwong wrote: post #36

What does everyone use these low-end plans for? Seeing the interest in this thread has gotten me curious.

A minecraft server so that my kids can play with a couple of their friends.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by efuquen » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

ahmett wrote: post #63

Note, DigitalOcean has a $5 plan, and works quite fine for my case where I host tons of small traffic websites and background tasks.

Agreed. Funny timing as I was just checking back to look at Linode pricing yesterday after having made the switch to DO over a year ago and was amazed they're cheapest plan was $20. Good to see they've lowered it further but even that $5 difference is a big deal if you're using a lot of vms and simply don't need the extra memory from a $10 a month plan. They need to at least reach parity, otherwise there really isn't any incentive for me to switch to pay $5 more a month per VM that I know doesn't need the extra resources.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by praxeologist » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 5:22 PM UTC

rogerdpack wrote: post #25

windsurfer wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Linode and DO use a variety of CPUs, and make upgrades all the time for their host machines, and your individual speed can vary as other VMs on the host use more and less CPU power. That being said, Linode gives you access to as many cores as available on the host. In my case, I have 8 cores available, while DO restricts the number of cores available to guests based on plans (starting at 1 core). Another thing t…

The blog mentions that these $10 plans are on the "new" hardware, which, AFAICT, doesn't allow access to shared [unused] cores on the host anymore, so you really do have only 1 core max. FWIW. They're said to be nice speedy cores, though I've never tried one myself. Anyway, it's nice to see linode finally come down in their price point, thank goodness for competition, they're obviously responding to DO with this move…

How might the performance of the $5 DO or either of the $10 from Linode/DO compare to what I get from my ~$10 shared hosting? I'm probably going to try a VPS at some point, but was just curious about if I could get rid of the shared and move my sites over too.