11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

Post by geerlingguy » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:34 AM UTC

tedchs wrote: post #112

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…

For the folks using Digital Ocean, have you considered Ramnode? $18 per year for their ultra-tiny plan, "OpenVZ SSD VPS (SVZ v2) - Atlanta - 128MB SVZ". I kinda love a company that constantly posts a 25% discount code on their own homepage. :)

Post by haelio » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 2:45 AM UTC

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…

Post by haelio » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 4:28 AM UTC

haelio wrote: post #123

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've paid for a year of the $20 plan and am wondering whether my expiry date will be pushed out pro-rata if I downgrade to the $10 plan. Any ideas?

Post by edwinyzh » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 4:37 AM UTC

jauer wrote: post #118

zxer wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could a bank transfer be less safe? I don't know the US system but if I give out my bank account number the only thing someone can use it for is to send money to me. On the other hand if someone malicious gets my credit card number they can use it to buy stuff and I have to go through a lot of trouble to get a new card.

It's somewhat the opposite in the US. With your bank routing and account number someone can make out bad checks or EFT pull from your account. Halting or reversing this can be quite difficult and in some cases it isn't possible to get your money back. With credit cards the liability is on the merchant that accepts the card to verify that the person presenting the card is authorized to use it. Card issuers will revers…

Post by kijin » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 9:47 AM UTC

chc wrote: post #102

yen223 wrote: post #100

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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 acti…