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

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

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Post by DougHaber »

munger wrote: post #71

Rackspace cloud customer here… These Linode upgrades are very tempting to entice me to switch. I get I might not be their target market (small business with about $1000/month on IaaS spending) but there are a couple things preventing me from doing so: 1) $10/month size suitable for a dev instance. 2) Some kind of scalable file storage solution with CDN integration – like RS CloudFiles/Akamai or AWS S3/Cloudfront or b…

I'm in a similar boat. I use Rackspace for their servers and CDN, and Linode is definitely starting to look nice. It could actually be cheaper to go with Linode and a separate CDN provider, such as MaxCDN. MaxCDN has some of the features that are missing from Cloud Files, which is real nice too. The main thing holding me back is the time it takes to migrate. I know they target the higher end, but hopefully RackSpace will readjust their prices as well at some point.

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

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Post by insertnickname »

notastartup wrote: post #82
sergiotapia wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ramnode is fantastic and cheap. http://www.ramnode.com

$2/month is enticing, but 128mb ram seems impossible. even 256mb is pushing it.

If you pay $2/month, you're a sucker; they've got lots of coupons (like the seemingly permanent 25 % discount on their website. If you look a bit further, you'll find even better discounts).

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

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Post by ilaksh »

morninj wrote: post #151
davexunit wrote: post #36

Cool news, but their website now has the same lame design as DigitalOcean. I liked the old site layout better.

What makes it lame?

Yeah, I don't think its lame at all. Its much more modern and nicer.

But that is funny, they copied so many aspects of Digital Ocean's design.

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

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Post by pangram »

edwinyzh wrote: post #267
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…

Just a side node, I occasionally use SSH tunneling to get through the evil local government Internet censoring, so I have a linode a DO (just sever months), and linode's SSH tunneling is much much more fast and stable.

That could be caused by the routing, as well, though -- are the servers in the same approximate geographical location?

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

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Post by gatehouse »

ldargin wrote: post #184
pavanky wrote: post #119

I wish Linode (or anyone else other than Amazon) provides a reasonable Plan[1] with GPUs on them. [1]: Amazon charges $2 an hour thats about $1500 a month.

Hmm, Amazon now charges $0.65 per hour for their g2.2xlarge GPU plan (in Linux). See http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

I checked spot instances just now, and it was less than $0.10 an hour. So for batch jobs that might be an option. And if you're using it interactively, than you can always go EBS backed and just turn it off when you're done.

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

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Post by porker »

vidyesh wrote: post #246
porker wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand the difference between OpenVZ, KVM and all the other virtualization providers. Is it that some are much faster than others?

OpenVZ is an OS level virtualization. The OS is partitioned and assigned resources, so the plans show two resources viz. dedicated and burst. The dedicated are the guaranteed resources to the server and burst are the remaining which are unused by the complete system and released to your server when required ( on load ). So a single OpenVZ VPS is actually running on resources which are shared with another VPS box. Mos…

Thanks, that's an awesome answer!

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

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Post by emocakes »

superuser2 wrote: post #269
neverminder wrote: post #242

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you can go with http://kimsufi.com and get a 2GB RAM dedicated server for $13 a month.

Not if you're an American. Kimsufi servers, last I checked, are sold to EU residents only.

incorrect, I have had kimsufi servers before and I'm not an EU resident
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