Thanks to amazon lightsail we now have $5 linodes :-)
High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
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Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#122Is 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 eve…
I know that I switched to Ramnode when I had problems with another VPS provider back in 2013 or so when one of the Admin panels was hacked across a large number of VPS providers. Ramnode was down for a few hours, the other VPS was down for a few days.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#123OVH.com is selling 2GB VMs for 2.99 Euros per month. No idea about over-provisioning or any comparison with Linode though.
I use OVH. Their support is horrendous though. For example, I put in a support request at mid-day this Saturday to ask if their geo-ip feature where you can select which country you want an additional IP to appear to be from, meant that the IP address actually terminated in that country. They didn't get back to me until this morning (3 days later), and the response was a bit vague. I bought some new IPs 4 hours ago f…
Had an OVH account. They suspected server was hacked. Nuked my account and hence the websites on it (it wasn't; many were affected at the time and it was a false alarm). Moved all the content to a folder (that was on a server/path to which they just gave me FTP login) and I had to get that data by some period of time. Tried to get in touch with them at least 8-9 times. Every time received a copy-pasted response on how to download my data. Just that. Called them once and I was asked to contact on email.
That was it. They also own Kimsufi. I had one account there too. Cancelled both of them and moved to VPS providers and it's been 3 years w/o complaints (my usages were/are very small time though).
When I checked around on hosting forums, looking for ways to contact them, everyone used to laugh as in "Support and OVH? Lol".
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#124Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode…
Slightly off-topic, but EC2 doesn't really scale independently if you compare it to GCE. We let you combine 24 vcpus with 39 GB of RAM, 3 partitions of Local SSD and a few GPUs, all independently (though the ratio of RAM to vcpu is currently bounded between .9 and 6.5).
One of our easiest pricing wins is against say the i2.* series ("Were you trying to buy more flash or more cores?") and now against their p2.* GPU series. It's pretty liberating to actually mix and match.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is an API method to query plans: https://www.linode.com/api/utility/avail.linodeplans Presumably you can select the relevant ID based on plan properties (cores, RAM, etc.) rather than hardcoding IDs. Though I completely agree that once a plan has a specific ID, as long as that plan is available the ID should be constant.
Yeah, that's... not practical. What if they upgrade the 1024 plan to 1536? (That has actually happened, by the way.) Now you're extracting the number and comparing it to a range? > Give me the plan where the RAM is >= 1024 and What if they upgrade the 1536 plan to 2048? > Nevermind, just give me the plan with two cores. Okay, do you want the $20/mo plan or the $120/mo plan? > Fine, sort the plans by cores and memory…
It's not as difficult as you're suggesting. Figure out your minimum specs and get the cheapest plan that meets them.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.
One thing that could help is having the ability to pre pay/load credits, so you could have a small discount that way
Linode / AWS already offer prepaid discounts.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#127Thanks to amazon lightsail we now have $5 linodes :-)
Lightsail $5 plan has inferior specs to the Linode $5 plan.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would, however, love that price point. It would be nice if I could run a few light-weight services on a VPS for $2.50 a month and then put my websites and other projects on a beefier VM. I currently use Linode, but if DigitalOcean offered something at that pricepoint they would be getting $2.50 more from me a month than they currently do.
ARIN charges for IPv4 address allocation ( https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html ) and I read that below $5 a month it becomes unprofitable for hosting companies just because of the cost of leasing IP addresses. If your services can run on shared hosting there are a bunch of hosts for less than $1 a month around.
Charge a dollar for ipv4, or ipv6 is free?
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, that's... not practical. What if they upgrade the 1024 plan to 1536? (That has actually happened, by the way.) Now you're extracting the number and comparing it to a range? > Give me the plan where the RAM is >= 1024 and What if they upgrade the 1536 plan to 2048? > Nevermind, just give me the plan with two cores. Okay, do you want the $20/mo plan or the $120/mo plan? > Fine, sort the plans by cores and memory…
It's not as difficult as you're suggesting. Figure out your minimum specs and get the cheapest plan that meets them.
Or, the API's plan IDs could correspond to specific plans, and never change. New plans mean new IDs. Like how IDs are supposed to work.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Holy, why do you need that computing power for streaming shows/movies?
Transcoding... x265 CPU encodes on even a 2hr video can take several hours on a very fast intel CPU. I've been playing around with nvenc vbr 2-pass which has been giving me good results, not too much larger than the cpu encode in minutes. But if you want something hosted/online, then it gets harder.
No way to offload it to the GPU? I remember reading about ffmpeg extensions for doing that...