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High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by hackerboos »

ovi256 wrote: post #5

OVH.com is selling 2GB VMs for 2.99 Euros per month. No idea about over-provisioning or any comparison with Linode though.

OVH basically tell you not to use these for production applications. I have 3 that I use for as gitlab-runners and as a dokku development server.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by rp36 »

I recently switched from DigitalOcean to Linode and could easily shave off 20% bill. The migration of VM was much easier than I expected (use rsync - https://lowendbox.com/blog/how-to-migrate-a-hosted-server-in...). My only complain is, I would like to take multiple manual backups even if it costed little extra.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by bogdanu »

hackerboos wrote: post #11
ovi256 wrote: post #5

OVH.com is selling 2GB VMs for 2.99 Euros per month. No idea about over-provisioning or any comparison with Linode though.

OVH basically tell you not to use these for production applications. I have 3 that I use for as gitlab-runners and as a dokku development server.

I was planning to use one for a side project. Can you give a link where they say that?

I have one for a few months and according to htop, the VM is up and running for over 90 days.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by mwpmaybe »

gkop wrote: post #7

Is this a bold move by Linode, or am I the only Linode customer (7 years going) who chose them in part because they steered clear of the bottom of the market?

I think it makes good business sense. It comes less than a year after they bumped the $10/mo instance to 2 GB RAM. They must have realized they were losing market share just by dint of there being no $5/mo option to compete with DO. Even though this is the bottom of the market, as you say, some of those "one-and-done" projects must hang around and need to scale eventually, and it's clearly easier to scale up on an existing platform than migrate to another. I know this takes away one of the two or three big reasons I ever have for using DO instead of Linode!

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by fapjacks »

gkop wrote: post #7

Is this a bold move by Linode, or am I the only Linode customer (7 years going) who chose them in part because they steered clear of the bottom of the market?

I'm sorry, but this pricing doesn't put them anywhere near the bottom of the market. As someone that has been buying from the VPS market for almost twenty years now, Linode cannot in any reasonable verbiage be lumped in with the riffraff crap vendors at the bottom. I could rattle off a dozen or more companies run by thugs and thieves that truly define "bottom of the market" for VPS, and Linode, DO, Ramnode aren't even on the same planet.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by tiger3 »

bogdanu wrote: post #13
hackerboos wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OVH basically tell you not to use these for production applications. I have 3 that I use for as gitlab-runners and as a dokku development server.

I was planning to use one for a side project. Can you give a link where they say that? I have one for a few months and according to htop, the VM is up and running for over 90 days.

I've been using one for a side project for a while and they're perfectly fine if you're ok with one core and 2gb of memory.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by flaviuspopan »

I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.
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