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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 ceejayoz »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #137
ceejayoz wrote: post #129

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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.

The plans themselves have changed many times before. They become obsolete over time. What if your plan ID becomes unavailble, or the specs change in a way your application can't handle? Don't shrug off your bad design decisions on someone else.

> What if your plan ID becomes unavailble

The API should throw an error, so I can adjust my scripts, instead of silently provisioning a server I never intended to provision.

There should be a deprecation process when a plan is discontinued, so this doesn't happen unexpectedly.

If AWS can't provision me a t1.micro, they don't just go and give me a m3.small instead.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by BrianT »

mdekkers wrote: post #152
deftnerd wrote: post #78

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Delimiter has a clever solution for $10 a month. They call it Slot Hosting. You ship them a disk and they'll host it and attach it as additional storage on a VPS. https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/ I use it to host an 8tb drive that I then attach to a dedicated server I rent for $20 a month. $30 a month and I have a server that I use for Plex (16 cores, 3.2ghz, 32 gigs of memory, and 10tb of total storage).

$30 a month and I have a server that I use for Plex (16 cores, 3.2ghz, 32 gigs of memory, and 10tb of total storage). That sounds amazing. Where can I find this?

It works out at $26.66/month but its based on two annual products:

Dual E5420, 16GB, 1TB HDD (or 2 x 500GB): https://cc.delimiter.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=1718

Slot hosting: https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/slot-hosting/

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by joshtronic »

terrywang wrote: post #146

Some feedback: I've been using DO droplets since mid 2013, reliability is excellent, no unexpected reboots at all. With the help of Ksplice the Ubuntu Server droplet has achieved 555 and 401 days uptime without downtime (could hang on a bit longer but later decided to reboot once every 3 months to address security concerns). DO support has been responsive and friendly, DO keeps (slowly) delivering new features such a…

Appreciate the link, I have a $5 review up as well now :)

Since my posts are straight benchmarks, I don't touch on the support side of things typically (mostly because I only have had support interaction with the companies I use).

That said, I've had exceptional support from both Linode and DigitalOcean over the years. Always responsive and friendly.

Interestingly enough though, yesterday my Linode went down due to a power outage in the Atlanta data center. I'm a huge fan of Linode, but something like a power outage at this stage in the game seems a bit like amateur hour.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by mdekkers »

BrianT wrote: post #162
mdekkers wrote: post #152

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$30 a month and I have a server that I use for Plex (16 cores, 3.2ghz, 32 gigs of memory, and 10tb of total storage). That sounds amazing. Where can I find this?

It works out at $26.66/month but its based on two annual products: Dual E5420, 16GB, 1TB HDD (or 2 x 500GB): https://cc.delimiter.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=1718 Slot hosting: https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/slot-hosting/

Thanks for the response, but the spec is half of what you listed. you linked me to a 2.5ghz, 8core, 16GB machine. No obvious private network options, so pricing is pretty much middle of the road. Although the slot option is cool.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by BrianT »

mdekkers wrote: post #164
BrianT wrote: post #162

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It works out at $26.66/month but its based on two annual products: Dual E5420, 16GB, 1TB HDD (or 2 x 500GB): https://cc.delimiter.com/?cmd=cart&action=add&id=1718 Slot hosting: https://cc.delimiter.com/cart/slot-hosting/

Thanks for the response, but the spec is half of what you listed. you linked me to a 2.5ghz, 8core, 16GB machine. No obvious private network options, so pricing is pretty much middle of the road. Although the slot option is cool.

There is no private option with Slot hosting. I think the OP is confusing 8 cores + 8 threads as 16 cores.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by detronizator »

mwpmaybe wrote: post #45

PSA: If you're using the Linode API, the 2048 plan is now PlanID 2 and the new 1024 plan is now PlanID 1. The other PlanIDs were incremented by one as well. I wish they hadn't done that, but there it is.

I have just created an account to say this: CHANGING THE ID OF THE PLAN IS INSANE AND CLEARLY A BAD-DEVELOPER CHOICE.

I bet there is a piece of code in Linode codebase that has the plan resources mapped in a table, with a list of ID attached to the various sizes. The genius developer decided that it makes sense to have the "growing number ID" match the "growth in resources" assigned to the plan. In other words, the bigger ID should always mean MORE resources.

This leads them to alter IDs if they have to introduce plan-sizes that are small.

Imagine if AWS did this: you would see riots in the streets!

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by astrodust »

eatonphil wrote: post #156
astrodust wrote: post #145

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> ...one of the simplest and flexible management interface I've experienced... Well, I'm really questioning what you've used then. It's atrocious. It's right up there with GoDaddy in terms of dashboards that are needlessly obnoxious. Digital Ocean's may be simple, but there's nothing wrong with that. It works. It's clear what it can and can't do. It's not cluttered up with confusion. For example, on Linode you cannot…

We do think our dashboard is important, and we are investing in it. As a matter of fact, you can even watch the development take place yourself because the new manager is an open-source app. :) https://github.com/linode/manager

That's really good to hear. Please give us an option to use it as soon as it's available for production accounts.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by potato1876 »

Matheus28 wrote: post #84
mwpmaybe wrote: post #45

PSA: If you're using the Linode API, the 2048 plan is now PlanID 2 and the new 1024 plan is now PlanID 1. The other PlanIDs were incremented by one as well. I wish they hadn't done that, but there it is.

That sucks. Those PlanIDs should never change.

Why have there been no Diep.io updates lately? Would you like to join our Diep.io Discord: https://discord.gg/vJVqhTf#discordbutton?

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by rovr138 »

mattbettinson wrote: post #101
deftnerd wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Delimiter has a clever solution for $10 a month. They call it Slot Hosting. You ship them a disk and they'll host it and attach it as additional storage on a VPS. https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/ I use it to host an 8tb drive that I then attach to a dedicated server I rent for $20 a month. $30 a month and I have a server that I use for Plex (16 cores, 3.2ghz, 32 gigs of memory, and 10tb of total storage).

Holy, why do you need that computing power for streaming shows/movies?

Depends on how many concurrent streams he's doing and if he's running anything else.
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