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What is the difference between the 16GB - 96GB Plan and a dedicated server? And why would i pay 3x the price? The advantage of those who offer Cloud / VPS and Dedicated Servers Hosting company is they can mix and match depending usage. If you are actually building an any sort of infrastructure with Linode those large box are extremely expensive.
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Your anecdotes (just like everyones) are meaningless. If you some evidence that DO is inferior at the same price level as Linode then you should post it. I was with Linode and had to deal with constant outages (at Fremont DC) and went through two major hacking incidents where I found out through Reddit instead of from them. I've never been with a worse provider than Linode.
All these anecdotes make one wonder why these people aren't simply going to hetzner and ovh and simply get a dedicated server for just slightly more (meaning $25/month).
Congratulation on Linode I stopped being a customer since migrating to DO but my needs were really small But I think their strategy of keeping the price and increasing capabilities are good. Between $5 and $20 is a "big" difference for one person (still, it's a day's lunch), for a company it's nothing. However, I would definitely go to Linode for CPU/IO intensive tasks. Amazon sucks at these (more benchmarks between…
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…
Just be aware that OVH is using OpenVZ whereas both Linode and DO are using KVM. That's a big difference if it matters to you
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Ramnode is fantastic and cheap. http://www.ramnode.com
$2/month is enticing, but 128mb ram seems impossible. even 256mb is pushing it.
A database server or similar wouldn't work, of course.
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Just be aware that OVH is using OpenVZ whereas both Linode and DO are using KVM. That's a big difference if it matters to you
I don't understand the difference between OpenVZ, KVM and all the other virtualization providers. Is it that some are much faster than others?
So a single OpenVZ VPS is actually running on resources which are shared with another VPS box. Mostly the burstable resource is the RAM which is borrowed from another VPS box when its not in use and your VPS box needs it.
On the other hand, KVM is hardware virtualization. The main OS simulates hardware for another OS to run on top of it. It fairly distributes all the resources. It does not have burst resources but it guarantees the dedicated resources. Essentially this means the plan which you see its 100% with you and is never shared with anyone. This also means on load you will not get extra ( burstable ) RAM out of it.
Guaranteed streamline performance is observed in KVM but value per dollar and efficient use of the complete hardware is observed in OpenVZ.
tl;dr :
OpenVZ is OS virtualization. Resources are variable and are shared with other(few) users on the same server as and when required. Dedicated resources are guaranteed but they could be shared with others and your box can borrow when others are idle.
KVM is hardware virtualization. All the resources are dedicated to you and only you. None is shared nor you get the shared bonus if required to your server. Dedicated resources are guaranteed.
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All these anecdotes make one wonder why these people aren't simply going to hetzner and ovh and simply get a dedicated server for just slightly more (meaning $25/month).
Or you can go with http://kimsufi.com and get a 2GB RAM dedicated server for $13 a month.
I forgot to benchmark the disk before I upgraded but here are some simple disk benchmarks on an upgraded linode (the $20 plan, now with SSD) $ dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.31593 s, 816 MB/s $ hdparm -tT /dev/xvda /dev/xvda: Timing cached reads: 19872 MB in 1.98 seconds = 10020.63 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 2558…
Throughput speed is not everything, in many situations latency is more important. Can you give results for this? dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync I'm getting "6.40264 s, 120 kB/s" on my laptop's SSD, but on a proper server with a RAID card and cache enabled I get "0.187033 s, 4.1 MB/s".
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync
1500+0 records in
1500+0 records out
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There are always great offers on http://lowendbox.com/ - I'm very happy with the small KVM offers edis.at is offering.
Beware of super cheap VPS providers. A couple years ago I got burned by a provider called VBOX that was highly recommended on lowendbox.com. At first the service was ok, but a few months later my server and VBOX business were completely unresponsive. Sure you'll save some money, but you might also waste hours of your time setting up a server that could one day disappear into thin air.
It looks like Linode are still leaving the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market to DO. Linode's cheapest option is $20/month, which makes it slightly less useful for the kind of "so cheap you don't even think about it" boxes that DO provide.