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

Post by brandon272 » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 6:40 PM UTC

filmgirlcw wrote: post #160

brandon272 wrote: post #97

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As someone who has used both Linode and "low end box" services, both have their place. Two observations: 1) I feel like Linode offers a level of support that the others don't offer. There are lower end providers that do offer good support, but it's not as consistently good as Linode. Were they to start offering cheaper $5 or $10 a month plans, they would be challenged when it comes to continuing to offer that level o…

I agree with this. I have a few DO accounts, a Linode and a few BuyVM accounts. The Linode is what I use for all of my "serious" production stuff, but I love the LEBs to play. That said, I do think the performance of DO is quite good. It reminds me of Slicehost back in the day. The BuyVM guys are just the best people ever, and I mostly maintain play boxes there just b/c I can get away with stuff there that might not…

Post by nine_k » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

gtaylor wrote: post #159

voidlogic wrote: post #153

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>I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary server better than any other VPS host in the world. I use DO for this and have used many others in the past and I have never had any problems with DO...

Anecdotally, I get notifications of maintenance outages every month with DO in NYC1 and NYC2. These are exceedingly, exceedingly rare with Linode's Atlanta DC. Also, stolen CPU on my DO boxes is super high, whereas this is very rare on Linode. You have less neighbors.

Post by giulianob » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 6:50 PM UTC

__xtrimsky wrote: post #172

I still prefer OVH.com http://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-classic.xml for $7 you get: 2 cores 2GB RAM for 10$ you get: 3 cores 4GB RAM They don't have SSD, but SSD doesn't do everything, I prefer more ram. EDIT: If some of you don't know OVH, it's because its new in America, but its not some cheap company, it's a European company that is very successful there. And just recently created a datacenter in North America. (I us…

Post by vbtechguy » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 6:54 PM UTC

madsushi wrote: post #77

Why do I pay Linode $20/month instead of paying DO $5/month(1)? Because Linode treats their servers like kittens (upgrades, addons/options, support), and DO treats their servers like cattle. There's nothing wrong with the cattle model of managing servers. But I'm not using Chef or Puppet, I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary ser…

Post by __xtrimsky » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 6:55 PM UTC

giulianob wrote: post #175

__xtrimsky wrote: post #172

I still prefer OVH.com http://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-classic.xml for $7 you get: 2 cores 2GB RAM for 10$ you get: 3 cores 4GB RAM They don't have SSD, but SSD doesn't do everything, I prefer more ram. EDIT: If some of you don't know OVH, it's because its new in America, but its not some cheap company, it's a European company that is very successful there. And just recently created a datacenter in North America. (I us…

Can you run https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench and see how the performance is to compare?

  _04/17/2014 - VMPLAN - DATACENTER - OS - AUTHOR_
  ```
  CPU model:  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4284
  Number of cores: 2
  CPU frequency:  3000.000 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 2048 MB
  Total amount of swap: 128 MB
  System uptime:   14 days, 13:31,
  I/O speed:  75.4 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 7.44s
  Download 100MB file: 13.0MB/s
  ```