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Has anyone used Vultr.com? I ask because they have all the same features as DO + way more (e.g. dedicated hosting w/ same great panel, BYO ISO, etc).
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For all the money Linode has on hand, and the size of their technical team, it's absolutely insulting they haven't made any tangible improvement to their management front-end in at least five years, if not more. The way it's behaving it's as if it was acquired and kept on life-support.
If we talk about DO in comparison, then DO's interface is just ugly and almost unusable. Every time I use it, I want to leave their site as soon as possible.
Has anyone used Vultr.com? I ask because they have all the same features as DO + way more (e.g. dedicated hosting w/ same great panel, BYO ISO, etc).
I've got Vultr instances in all of their EU locations and haven't had any issues (connectivity wise or uptime wise). One note for Vultr: new accounts are limited to max 5 VPS instances by default until you open a support ticket and request the limit be raised (which they were happy to do, at least for me).
I wonder if the this pushes there valuation over 1B, if so I think that means that Techstars is the first accelerator outside of YC to produce a unicorn. Personally I hope so, Digital Ocean is a great product and I think one of the really smart things they did was be generous with there free credits as it was at least a great way for me to get on there platform and later on drop a fair amount into hosting with them.
I used digital ocean for a while. My experience was bad reliability and random technical issues. I had various very experience ops people verify with me that it wasn't an issue I introduced into the systems running. I went back to dedicated servers at a smallish provider and forgot how nice it can be to not have all the cloud virtualization stuff get in the way. It's just too fragmented among providers in the way the…
Why not just use AWS? Seems like you went from bad to slightly better. There's no reason to fear virtualization, and the automation is definitely one of the best aspects of running in a major cloud.
DO has really benefitted from Linode stalling over the past few years. I admire Linode for remaining a bootstrapped business but it feels as though the owners lost their fighting spirit and energy... Perhaps because the small pool of Linode owners felt they made enough money already. DOs announment talks about a storage product, which is strategically important and crucially something Linode has sorely needed for a l…
I disagree, Linode is much superior than DO. I can trust to DO only fault-tolerant services when to Linode I can trust any kind of service to run.
It's been terrible for years. And it's not like you have a lot of choices when it comes to Linode data centre.
I'm sure your experience has been good, but there's a huge swathe of ex-Linode customers with pretty negative memories.
DO has really benefitted from Linode stalling over the past few years. I admire Linode for remaining a bootstrapped business but it feels as though the owners lost their fighting spirit and energy... Perhaps because the small pool of Linode owners felt they made enough money already. DOs announment talks about a storage product, which is strategically important and crucially something Linode has sorely needed for a l…
>> And yet the biggest development in recent years at Linode has been a proprietary stats and monitoring system
>> Linode is now switching their entire platform from Xen to KVM, a curious move which will create risk
>> I have been a huge supporter of Linode over the years
Uh huh, right.
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I disagree, Linode is much superior than DO. I can trust to DO only fault-tolerant services when to Linode I can trust any kind of service to run.
Clearly you haven't tried using their Fremont data centre. It's been terrible for years. And it's not like you have a lot of choices when it comes to Linode data centre. I'm sure your experience has been good, but there's a huge swathe of ex-Linode customers with pretty negative memories.
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A reasonable question For me :- * Excellent reliability (no unscheduled downtime in 6 years from 3 to at one point more than a dozen nodes) * Excellent hardware - when I've benchmarked real production systems on Linode on a $/perf ratio beats DO hands down * Excellent support - tickets are generally answered in under 30 minutes and staff are knowledgeable * It just works(TM) * Straightforward interface and pricing *…
For me: a) Average reliability - had numerous incidents at their London and Fremont DCs. And the complete inability to tell me what was happening in a timely manner was pretty unacceptable. b) Average support - they will answer the simple questions very quickly. But anything reasonably complex they will actually not bother responding at all.
Edit: Their support is top of the line.
DO has really benefitted from Linode stalling over the past few years. I admire Linode for remaining a bootstrapped business but it feels as though the owners lost their fighting spirit and energy... Perhaps because the small pool of Linode owners felt they made enough money already. DOs announment talks about a storage product, which is strategically important and crucially something Linode has sorely needed for a l…
Xen to KVM was nothing but smooth and my node is now flying.