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Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by spamizbad »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #18
mleonhard wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've had a $20 Linode virt for a couple of years and it's been pretty reliable.

Is a $20 vps (360MB ram) enough for a small website? I want to get one for me but I don't want to get rammed in the ass when I realize it is not enough and need to upgrade to at least 1GB. I see I can get 1GB RAM at prgmr.com for the same $20

More than enough.

I run a Django-powered site on a 96meg host on an over-loaded Xen host built with ancient P4 Xeon servers (No VT instructions). I use nginx and sqlite to cope with my tiny amount of available memory. With that said the site sees little traffic (<500 hits a day, peaks ~60 hits in 1 hour), but I've never run into issues.

Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by slig »

Kilimanjaro wrote: post #18
mleonhard wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've had a $20 Linode virt for a couple of years and it's been pretty reliable.

Is a $20 vps (360MB ram) enough for a small website? I want to get one for me but I don't want to get rammed in the ass when I realize it is not enough and need to upgrade to at least 1GB. I see I can get 1GB RAM at prgmr.com for the same $20

I used to run a create-your-own-quiz django powered site with 6k uniques/day(in the last few days), with no cache, and it barely touched my 360 vps. You can see some nice graphs here: http://slig.imgur.com/linode

Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by shrike »

rms wrote: post #11
donw wrote: post #4

Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.

http://prgmr.com/xen/ gets good reviews here, is run by a HN member, and has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far.

I use Linode for my primary site and prgmr as the backup. Both are excellent. Prgmr is not for newbies, you submit a public key with your order and get back a login to a XEN console. My hosts there seem to be fine, no problems yet.

Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by peterwwillis »

rms wrote: post #11
donw wrote: post #4

Totally unrelated to the article, but I've got to put my good word in for Linode. I've never had such good service from a hosting provider, and frankly for a (currently) tiny account.

http://prgmr.com/xen/ gets good reviews here, is run by a HN member, and has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far.

has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far

This is not accurate. There are many VPS's which are cheaper, many of which have much greater capacity for the money. Some are fly-by-night scams. Others have several years of stability with good support. Check forums and VPS review sites to find the best match.

That said, I have nothing against prgmr or linode and would use them if I needed a super-reliable VPS. (My main VPS is Linode, my secondary is with Kerplunc Hosting)

Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by rms »

peterwwillis wrote: post #24
rms wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://prgmr.com/xen/ gets good reviews here, is run by a HN member, and has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far.

has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far This is not accurate. There are many VPS's which are cheaper, many of which have much greater capacity for the money. Some are fly-by-night scams. Others have several years of stability with good support. Check forums and VPS review sites to find the best match. That said, I have nothing against prgmr or linode and would use them if I needed a super-reliable VPS. (My main…

I meant cheapest per unit of RAM. Do you know of any decently reliable VPS provider with cheaper prices for 256/512/1024 MB of RAM?

Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by uggedal »

reginaldo wrote: post #16
uggedal wrote: post #13

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Thanks for the clarification. I've been thinking of running http://wasitup.com from 3 different Linode data centers for a while to remedy problems like this (the service currently runs on 3 different racks in the NJ data center). I would first have to find a way to send Tokyo Tyrant data encrypted/authenticated over WAN first.

An easy (if slow) way to do so is to tunnel it through ssh. If things are too slow you can use the "blowfish" algorithm for encryption through the "-c blowfish" option.

Thanks, I was initially thinking of using tinc, but ssh might be easier to set up.

Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by axod »

rms wrote: post #25
peterwwillis wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far This is not accurate. There are many VPS's which are cheaper, many of which have much greater capacity for the money. Some are fly-by-night scams. Others have several years of stability with good support. Check forums and VPS review sites to find the best match. That said, I have nothing against prgmr or linode and would use them if I needed a super-reliable VPS. (My main…

I meant cheapest per unit of RAM. Do you know of any decently reliable VPS provider with cheaper prices for 256/512/1024 MB of RAM?

Average website backends shouldn't really be limited by RAM unless you're doing some really heavy lifting, or made some bad choices.

I'm more concerned about bandwidth. prgmr is close, but not quite as cheap as linode when it comes to bandwidth.

Depends what your needs are though.

Re: Linode and the Google Cyber Attacks

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Post by skorgu »

peterwwillis wrote: post #24
rms wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://prgmr.com/xen/ gets good reviews here, is run by a HN member, and has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far.

has the cheapest prices out of any VPS by far This is not accurate. There are many VPS's which are cheaper, many of which have much greater capacity for the money. Some are fly-by-night scams. Others have several years of stability with good support. Check forums and VPS review sites to find the best match. That said, I have nothing against prgmr or linode and would use them if I needed a super-reliable VPS. (My main…

How satisfied are you with Kerplunc? Their unmetered VPSen look like an incredible bandwidth deal, almost suspiciously good.
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