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You advise basing the most critical part of your business on the cheapest offering possible?
So I should be registering my domain with Network Solutions for $34.99/year, right?
Can you explain this to me? I'm not sure I understand. If it's domain management you're after, MarkMonitor's the usual choice IIRC.
Hopefully Nextgen v.2 adds RAM for the same price.
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For less than the price of a 4GB linode get a 32GB SSD server from OVH http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/sp_32g_ssd.xml or a multitude of others http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/8302/99-e3-32-gb-list-o... .
How is the performance of OVH's network by the way? Anyone had any issues with it? I'm paying ~80/mo right now for VPSs, and this offers way more horsepower than what I have now. Any downsides to going this route? Also is there anything comparable that's located on the west coast?
After initial setup you may want to change the grsec kernel to something else (according to preferences, it's not bad), and by default they have root ssh access to your box (key-based auth), which you may want to revoke.
Ovh has one data center in Canada, but that's in Quebec, not west coast.
Anyone else find this interesting? Have you seen this in other compmanies?
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If managed, but unmanaged starts at $16.xx for 512MB and outbound traffic is at 0.12/GB I think
Except now rackspace is even more expensive than linode for certain uses as the 2TB of bandwidth free would cost you an extra $240 on rackspace cloud and because bandwidth is shared between all linodes this extra bandwidth can make a big difference.
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Do you consider a 45-minute outage once a month to be acceptable? Maybe for the price, it is.
Depends how you look at it. A minute and a half a day? Doesn't sound too bad when you say it that way. A 3-hour outage every 4 months? My cable company can barely do that.
I was running Gentoo at London DC without any issues, my major gripes with Linode was how hard was it to get additional IPv4 addresses without lying about your reasons - i.e running services on different IP addresses or separating your business/personal websites (and very easy if you lied, I know someone who did). Another thing was that I paid them by a virtual CC and always put there just enough money for transaction every month, it's dedicated for internet pay only and prevents cc fraud, but every now and then they'd get the card declined at the beginning of the month cause I didn't put the money in yet, like 2nd or 3rd day and always always there was this template threatening ticket put in by a person in my account. I was paying them every month for years, so what if I have outstanding balance on the 2nd or 3rd, is that the reason to threat deleting my stuff? That felt really alienating.
Digital Ocean, while don't hand out IP addresses at all, costs so little that it's $1 + damn good reason at Linode or $5 and a VPS on top for the IP at DO.
The support at DO is nor fast, nor technical, I had issues with my Gentoo builds basically where after reboot /dev/null would come up being a text file with junk in it, you can mknod it but it wouldn't survive reboot. I've raised a ticket and they've removed Gentoo from selection, but I doubt it's fixed and and I'll have to work some ugly hacks to work around this if it happens again.
They use a kernel loaded from below, so you won't really have latest and greatest Arch if you use that, kernel upgrades are in pkg ignore list and even if upgraded it won't load.
I might return to Linode sometime in the future if DO messes up my Gentoos again and Linode does better at matching DO's offer.
At the moment, if you don't need to scale a lot (it's not as convenient at Linode, $20 vs $5 starts to hurt as the number of boxes go up, also Linode doesn't bill you by the our) and just want a personal server for your website I'd still go with Linode, especially after increased transfer quotas.
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How is the performance of OVH's network by the way? Anyone had any issues with it? I'm paying ~80/mo right now for VPSs, and this offers way more horsepower than what I have now. Any downsides to going this route? Also is there anything comparable that's located on the west coast?
I'm absolutely stoked about their low-end dedicated servers. I have 13€/mo and 18€/mo instances (located in France) and I'm in Finland. No issues whatsoever, connectivity or uptime, and I use them to run both my personal and company mail, and some web stuff. If you go over traffic quota (5TB / mo) they will limit your speed to 10Mbit/s, not cut you off or bill extra (but you can purchase extra quota). But I have no i…
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>I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode This is true now (Linode is a premium vps provider) but it was not always true. Linode started out cheap, like almost everyone in our industry does. Linode was one of the first in the market; they've been selling VPSs longer even than I have. >Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway fr…
Is linode announcing their own netblocks under their own ASN, though? My impression has been that you have more diversity of immediate upstreams than linode...
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Is linode announcing their own netblocks under their own ASN, though? My impression has been that you have more diversity of immediate upstreams than linode...
No idea. I'm on he.net and cogent right now; I'm working on getting more routes, but it's pretty irritating. I have been having some trouble reaching folks on comcast in the midwest, so I contacted comcast and asked about paid peering (they think they are hot shit, so there is no way they would settlement-free peer with me) They want three grand for a 1g peering link. And they aren't on any of the silicon valley peer…