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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 jebblue »

agwa wrote: post #20
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 cons…

I've been with them for 4 years and don't see any decline, at all.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by chc »

yen223 wrote: post #100
chc wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't debit cards generally be used as credit cards?

Debit cards are the same as credit cards, but without the credit, the protections, or the reward points. As long as you can maintain financial discipline, there's really no reason to be using a debit card.

A small niggle, because I see a lot of people say this: At least in the US, many banks do extend the same protections to both credit and debit cards. My wife and I both had our debit card info stolen in separate hacks over the past few years, and both times our respective banks just asked us a few questions, credited the money back to our accounts and sent a new card that automatically replaced the old card upon activation.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by jamroom »

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 :)

Been running on DO for a while now without any downtime:

18:39:03 up 249 days, 4:57, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.20, 0.24

Moved off of Linode since we were down fairly often (to be fair it was Linode's Fremont DC) but we'd also have our dev server go down every month or 2 in Dallas.

Honestly I think it's probably hit and miss and depends a bit on luck and the server your VPS gets setup on.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by jiggy2011 »

yen223 wrote: post #100
chc wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't debit cards generally be used as credit cards?

Debit cards are the same as credit cards, but without the credit, the protections, or the reward points. As long as you can maintain financial discipline, there's really no reason to be using a debit card.

Credit cards can cost more for merchants to process, sometimes they pass this cost onto the consumer with a credit card surcharge.

It's also easier to track your spending on a debit card as you can check the remaining balance at any ATM rather than waiting for the bill or going online.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by uladzislau »

praxeologist wrote: post #70
rogerdpack wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

From my experience $5 DO is more robust than most shared plans. However the trade off is that you have to setup and maintain everything yourself including security.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by adventured »

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.

You're going to have to actually provide real information to back up such an extreme claim if you want to come across as believable.

What is inherent about the credit card system, at even a modest flat rate of 7%, that makes it unsustainable exactly? An examination by logic says that it is very sustainable, banking history says that it is very sustainable.

It's absolutely no different in concept than a bank loan or line of credit, so long as the lending agency vets their customers properly based on the ability to pay. If you do that, it's an extraordinarily convenient and useful system.

Banks have been making money on 7% loans for centuries. There is absolutely nothing unique about borrowing money on the spot via a credit card based on a previously set credit line.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by Kudos »

fps wrote: post #44
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…

it's pretty easy to change linode plans. click on the instance in the manager ( https://manager.linode.com/ ) and then on "resize." Linode 1024 is the new one. The whole process takes about 15 minutes.

Their concern is that they'll get migrated to a server that doesn't support 32-bit linux, not that it's something they found difficult to do.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by Kudos »

misterbwong wrote: post #36

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

A staging environment replicating on one box what runs on four in production. It's only using 650MB of the 1GB RAM so the 2GB box it was on was more than required.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by Kudos »

gtaylor wrote: post #27
NYCHacker wrote: post #18

how does Linode compare to Amazon AWS?

Apples to oranges. AWS's main appeal isn't VMs (EC2), it's the huge portfolio of other services you can make use of. Linode is more of a VM host with a few also-ran services that they are experimenting with (Load Balancing). If all you need is somewhere to host a cheap VM, go Linode. If you want to make use of a larger collection of services (that you don't have to maintain) to build applications on, AWS may be worth…

You can use Linode for not cheap VMs too. A good use case for Linode is high bandwidth sites, Amazon's data transfer charges are horrendous.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by bluedino »

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's network speeds and latency are not very consistent for me. I can make a ticket and 'noisy neighbors' are moved to another node but the problems always come back.
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