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Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by kylec » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:24 PM UTC

rjknight wrote: post #5

It looks like Linode are still leaving the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market to DO. Linode's cheapest option is $20/month, which makes it slightly less useful for the kind of "so cheap you don't even think about it" boxes that DO provide.

Yeah, my current Linode I've been running since it was a 512MB instance. I definitely don't need 2GB, I'd rather pay a bit less per month than get the upgrade. I don't think they need to go down to $5/month, but a $10/month plan similar to DO's would be very useful.

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by nivla » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

Awesome News. Competition really pushes companies to please their customers. Ever since Digital Ocean became the new hip, Linode has been pushing harder. My experience with them has been mixed. Forgiving their previous mishaps and the feeling that the level of Customer Service has gone down, they have been decent year long. I wouldn't mind recommending them.

[Edit: Removed the bit about DigitalOcean Plans. If you have Ghostery running, it apparently takes out the html block listing different plans]

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by Jake232 » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

relaxatorium wrote: post #7

This seems pretty fantastic, I am excited to upgrade and think the SSD storage is going to be really helpful for improving the performance of my applications hosted there. That said, I am not an expert on CPU virtualization but I did notice that the new plans are differently phrased than the old ones here. The old plans all talked about 8 CPU cores with various 1x, 2x priority levels ( https://blog.linode.com/2013/04…

Somebody asked this on the blog post, here was the reply from Linode:

If you take the upgrade, you inherit the new plan specs, vcpus and all.

We’ve greatly reduced the contention on these new machines compared to our old structure, and in testing this new arrangement provides much more consistent CPU time with less potential for steal. We think it’s great and totally worth the move, otherwise we wouldn’t have done it. These machines are incredibly fast, faster procs, SSDs, the network is incredible, etc.

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by jaequery » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

im really impressed by their new CPU specs. from experience those aren't cheap and it's possibly the fastest CPU out in the market. combined with the SSDs, it may be that Linode currently is the fastest of any cloud hosting right now.

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by TillE » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:26 PM UTC

rjknight wrote: post #5

It looks like Linode are still leaving the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market to DO. Linode's cheapest option is $20/month, which makes it slightly less useful for the kind of "so cheap you don't even think about it" boxes that DO provide.

> the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market

How big is that market, really? I keep a small VPS around for whatever (I like Hetzner), and I'm sure lots of nerds are the same. But for any usage that's even a little bit serious, $20/month is peanuts.

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by h4pless » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

I notice that Linode talked a good bit about their bandwidth and included outbound bandwidth in their pricing model which DO does not. I wonder if DO has a similar model or if transfer capacity the only thing you have control over.

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by mimiflynn » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

nivla wrote: post #12

Awesome News. Competition really pushes companies to please their customers. Ever since Digital Ocean became the new hip, Linode has been pushing harder. My experience with them has been mixed. Forgiving their previous mishaps and the feeling that the level of Customer Service has gone down, they have been decent year long. I wouldn't mind recommending them. [Edit: Removed the bit about DigitalOcean Plans. If you hav…

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by endijs » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

Most interesting part in this great upgrade is that they went from 8CPU setup to 2CPU setup. But yeah - 2x more RAM, SSDs will guarantee that I'm not going to switch anytime soon. Sadly I need to wait a week until this will be available in London.

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by cshenoy » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

nivla wrote: post #12

Awesome News. Competition really pushes companies to please their customers. Ever since Digital Ocean became the new hip, Linode has been pushing harder. My experience with them has been mixed. Forgiving their previous mishaps and the feeling that the level of Customer Service has gone down, they have been decent year long. I wouldn't mind recommending them. [Edit: Removed the bit about DigitalOcean Plans. If you hav…

You mean https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ ? Seems to be working at the moment.

Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

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Post by eli » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

EC1 wrote: post #8

rjknight wrote: post #5

It looks like Linode are still leaving the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market to DO. Linode's cheapest option is $20/month, which makes it slightly less useful for the kind of "so cheap you don't even think about it" boxes that DO provide.

Shit, I should probably move to DO. I've been running a Linode for like two years, and have only ever used it once, yet I keep getting billed.

Well, if you're truly not using it, you could delete the instance and not be billed, then redploy when you need it.