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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 Macha »

edwinyzh wrote: post #31

I have just submitted a ticket to ask Linode about downgrading from my current $20 plan, since I host PHP websites only, and I use Ubuntu 32bit, and I don't want to take risks to switch the kernel to 64bit in order to take advantage of their recent free hardware upgrades: https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-... I don't see any reasons they'll not let me downgrade, since there is no reason to p…

I think the $10 boxes are on the new hardware and so you'll need to either wait for 32bit support on the new hosts or upgrade to 64bit to switch to it anyway.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by kibwen »

thecosas wrote: post #64

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

I've just downgraded as well. While the server itself is invaluable, I've only ever used a tiny fraction of its potential each month.

However, at this price point, I'm considering spinning up a second server just to tool around with (which is what this server was originally for before I and all my friends started relying on it as a proxy/gameserver/URL shortener/IRC persistor).

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by kbar13 »

abhorrence wrote: post #50
opendais wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

DO pretty much never seems to post anything on their status page unless it affects a lot of their customers -- I've had support tickets with them where they say a problem is affecting "some" customers, but they pretty much never posted it on their status page. Whereas Linode seems to post status problems far more frequently, and pretty much none of the problems listed have ever affected any of my nodes. Of course, th…

to be fair Linode also only posts when outages are DC-wide or otherwise affect large numbers of users.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by pyre »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The parent said (emphasis mine):

> Because credit card system is not sustainable

and you say:

> I have never paid [...] and everything sails smoothly.

The parent is talking about the system as a whole, while you are talking about your individual usage/experience. Is it not possible that your usage is subsidized by those less financially organized?

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by DasIch »

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?

You just transfer the money from your bank account to the bank account of the merchant. There are various methods to do that, I prefer giropay[1]. If it's a merchant you regularly use like amazon you allow the merchant to directly withdraw[2] the money from your account.

It's not like this is some weird highly advanced stuff. Surely that's possible in the US as well?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giropay [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronisches_Lastschriftverfa...

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by chc »

DasIch wrote: post #87
recursive wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You just transfer the money from your bank account to the bank account of the merchant. There are various methods to do that, I prefer giropay[1]. If it's a merchant you regularly use like amazon you allow the merchant to directly withdraw[2] the money from your account. It's not like this is some weird highly advanced stuff. Surely that's possible in the US as well? [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giropay [2]: htt…

It is not generally possible to do this in the US. Amazon allows it, but most places do not because it's not a very in-demand service — using cards is safer and easier than giving out your bank information, so not very many people insist on the latter.
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