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Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by agwa »

Linode has been a monumental disappointment. I signed up with them in 2005, when they were 2 years old and AWS didn't even exist. They were reliable and the support was phenomenal. The Linode Manager was powerful and yet simple to use. I used them for all my personal and professional hosting needs.

In 2013, the support started going downhill. Then there were a series of security breaches, with absolutely abysmal responses from Linode. I now expect to be off of Linode by the end of 2016 (mostly to AWS, with some DigitalOcean), even though in many aspects I still prefer Linode.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by eatonphil »

tiffanyh wrote: post #12

Vultr.com seems to be the new guys coming after Linode. Does any [Linode users] have any experience with them? For a company so new they have a surprisingly amount of more features than Linode (eg BSD support, more data centers, dedicated instances, etc) Note: I'm no way affiliated with either company. Edit: adding clarity and intent. My edit is in brackets. I'm no shill :)

It is not officially supported, but you can run FreeBSD on Linode. I have been able to get FreeBSD (with ZFS), OpenBSD, and NetBSD running on my Linodes. I tried getting SmartOS working but I haven't gotten the configuration right yet.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by gist »

fweespeech wrote: post #10
msbarnett wrote: post #2

I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance.

> I'm gun-shy of Linode's many security issues, but hopefully this further drives down RAM prices of competitors. I'd love a $10 2G DigitalOcean instance. To be fair, unless you are running critical infrastructure and/or processing things involving money...Linode's quality of security is adequate. (i.e. For hobbyists and small businesses that don't touch take payments but rely on ad revenue ) Security is pretty terri…

> unless you colocate your own stuff in a locked cage

How much is a locked cage really needed?

To me the risks are really someone messing with your cables and taking you off line, or accidentally pulling a power plug, which is QOS really. Not security. Can't remember when I heard of someone carting off a server or plugging in a cable to the console port (once they have gotten even into the racks and are on cameras) and doing any harm. Even if this does happen it seems fairly remote and not a concern unless you are really doing something so important that you need to lock up the servers. Sure price not being an object why not lock them up.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by Veratyr »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #8

[Disclaimer: Linode dev here] I see a few people^W^Weveryone here talking about security. If you didn't read the whole blog post, you might not have noticed the new Linode manager that we're working on being mentioned. Check it out, it's open source: https://github.com/Linode/manager If you haven't been present in other discussions about Linode security, one of the major factors (in my opinion) is the current manager…

I think most people are concerned about the response to security incidents around as much as they're concerned about the security incidents themselves.

Improving the manager is certainly a good step but there's a lot of work to be done to regain users' confidence.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by Veratyr »

tiffanyh wrote: post #12

Vultr.com seems to be the new guys coming after Linode. Does any [Linode users] have any experience with them? For a company so new they have a surprisingly amount of more features than Linode (eg BSD support, more data centers, dedicated instances, etc) Note: I'm no way affiliated with either company. Edit: adding clarity and intent. My edit is in brackets. I'm no shill :)

I love Vultr. Pretty consistently performs better than competition (like DigitalOcean) for the same price, cheap, haven't had any issues with reliability.

I'd say RamNode is also decent (they do very well in benchmarks) but their support, management and infrastructure is terrible. They were pretty heavily compromised (personal information, passwords etc. leaked) due to a SolusVM vulnerability and refused to remove personal information to prevent it being compromised in the future.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

Veratyr wrote: post #25
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #8

[Disclaimer: Linode dev here] I see a few people^W^Weveryone here talking about security. If you didn't read the whole blog post, you might not have noticed the new Linode manager that we're working on being mentioned. Check it out, it's open source: https://github.com/Linode/manager If you haven't been present in other discussions about Linode security, one of the major factors (in my opinion) is the current manager…

I think most people are concerned about the response to security incidents around as much as they're concerned about the security incidents themselves. Improving the manager is certainly a good step but there's a lot of work to be done to regain users' confidence.

That's very much true. We've been pushing for more transparency company-wide as a result. It's hard to demonstrate that we'll handle this better without another security incident to be transparent about (and let's all hope we don't get there), but we've been pushing for more transparency overall. On my team this means that we're doing our development in the open, we've switched from an internal Jira to a public waffle.io backlog: https://waffle.io/linode/manager (it's just been prioritized too, we're doing sprint planning in 10 mins).

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by red_phone »

tiffanyh wrote: post #12

Vultr.com seems to be the new guys coming after Linode. Does any [Linode users] have any experience with them? For a company so new they have a surprisingly amount of more features than Linode (eg BSD support, more data centers, dedicated instances, etc) Note: I'm no way affiliated with either company. Edit: adding clarity and intent. My edit is in brackets. I'm no shill :)

I've had a few instances up on Vultr for nearly a year now and have nothing but good things to say about them. The OS images they use for their instances are, in my experience, almost completely plain-vanilla (which leads to fewer surprises) and the custom ISO functionality is great if you need to launch an instance on an otherwise unsupported OS.

Their instance performance is better than DO in my experience, though I don't know how they compare to Linode.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by cpqq »

Sounds like a shill. RamNode consistently beats out Vultr on LowEndTalk.

I remember the first days of Vultr when everyone signed up and saw other VMs and other people's billing information. RamNode has a great infrastructure, while most of Vultr's locations are single-homed.

I'd check LowEndTalk and other sites, and ask Vultr about their disk RAID before choosing due to comments like this.

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