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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 middleclick »

romaniv wrote: post #65
shiven wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Is it? I have never paid any hidden fee, or overdrafts. Set a reminder for every fifteen days, pump up the credit card and everything sails smoothly.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

Really, this is excellent news. I just deleted my $20/month Linode last week, because I only got it to do some proof-of-concept stuff at work. But the $10 price point will probably persuade me to start it up again, and I can always upgrade later if I start needing the premium resources.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by jiggy2011 »

recursive wrote: post #61
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…

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

Debit card

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by blisterpeanuts »

misterbwong wrote: post #36

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

Proof-of-concept project for work -- ported a Weblogic Java web app from work server to JBoss on Linode -- worked beautifully.

I closed my account a few days ago when I realized I hadn't touched it in a couple of months, but the $10 will probably lure me back. It's nice having an extra vps or two for testing/backups etc.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

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.

I also appreciate the fact that Linode hasn't deprecated Arch Linux images like DO has. DO also seems to be pretty bad at listening to users.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by Nickoladze »

recursive wrote: post #61
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…

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

I have a Debit card that I just run as a credit card everywhere. I use it to pay for everything in the offline world (gas and food mostly). I use it online as well, but I prefer to use Paypal which is hooked up to my bank account.

I'm probably less protected against fraud, but I haven't had a reason to worry yet.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by mitchty »

rimantas wrote: post #67
kukkukb wrote: post #28

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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).

Do you never patch the kernel for security updates?

Every time I hear/see these crazy high uptime entries I cringe a little at the security implications. Unless you're applying updates to everything but the kernel, but still there have been at least 2 local vulnerabilities in the past few years.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by toast0 »

middleclick wrote: post #71
romaniv wrote: post #65

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

Is it? I have never paid any hidden fee, or overdrafts. Set a reminder for every fifteen days, pump up the credit card and everything sails smoothly.

Merchant fees are more or less hidden: somewhere between 1% and 5% of your purchase does not go to the merchant.
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