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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 hanru »

hadoukenio wrote: post #222
__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…

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

Linode is Xen; DO is KVM.

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

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Post by dylz »

emocakes wrote: post #280
superuser2 wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

For a while last year (at least several months), they only permitted kimsufi sale for EU and blocked PayPal payments from the US. You could only buy the 100$+ machines from OVH, not Kimsufis

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

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Post by bluedino »

hadoukenio wrote: post #222
__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…

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

OVH has two VPS offerings: 'Classic' which runs OpenVZ and 'cloud' which runs on VMware, and also is priced higher

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

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Post by thejosh »

6cxs2hd6 wrote: post #83
davexunit wrote: post #36

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

Looks like library.linode.com has the same format, and is still the same fantastic resource. I'm embarrassed to say that once upon a time I used library.linode.com to help walk me through my first Linux server setup... running on Digital Ocean. Yes, I felt like a complete douchebag. I wanted to use Linode but I was one of those $5/month people. However it left me with a sense of obligation to give Linode business som…

DO do the same thing, plus they get paid for articles.

Shame browsing it since the redesign is a complete clusterfuck between articles and community forum posts!

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

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Post by morganherlocker »

rschmitty wrote: post #39
morganherlocker wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a tiny VPS provider that is actually $20/yr. For sites that get a couple thousand hits per month it is perfect. Although I do not see it as a requirement in this price range, the uptime has been on par with the big names (I have known of one 5 hour outage in the 3 years I have been using it). Even DO's $5/mo now seems a bit steep now for the "I just had a random idea" type thing.

Care to share the provider you are using?

OP here. I use Hostigation[1]. I know some people are concerned about many of the low end providers, but in this case:

1. It's 20 bucks... take a gamble!

2. The owner, Tim, has personally responded to every issue I have ever had within an hour. Pretty stellar, if you ask me.

[1] https://hostigation.com/

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

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Post by Karunamon »

dragontamer wrote: post #224
jeffasinger wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some types of sites need disk more than RAM, and that market is really weird right now too. I run a service that could get away with only 8GB of RAM, but definitely needs at least 2TB of space, plus plenty of room to grow.

When numbers start getting up into that territory, I tend to look at the discount dedicated servers. WholeSaleInternet for example, currently has a Quad-Core Xeon E3 1230 for sale at $49/month with 5 IP Addresses. 1GBPS connection with 10TB bandwidth with 8GB of RAM / 250GB of Hard Drive. If that 2TB Hard Drive is really needed, you can compromise on the CPU and go for a consumer-grade AMD Fx-4100 (Quad-Core AMD) fro…

Thanks for pointing that provider out to me. Those are some of the best prices i've seen this side of Hetzner.

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

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Post by edwinyzh »

pangram wrote: post #274
edwinyzh wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

well, I'm not sure, but since the difference is huge, I'm not sure if routing can cause that significant difference, I'm really not sure about that.

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

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Post by munger »

DougHaber wrote: post #271
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…

Although, I guess there is nothing to stop me from running servers on Linode and continuing to use RS for Cloud Files/Akamai -- except for network speed of course. Linode can deploy to Dallas though, where I use RS so maybe the network speed won't be a big problem.

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

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Post by rogerdpack »

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…

Unfortunately, DO vs. Linode, DO is the only one that can provide me a "reasonably fast box" [cpu, ssd] for $5/month, so I'm cattle, but cheap... :) [pingdom shows 5min worth of outage in the past week (a 99.96% uptime) which may or may not be OK depending on your money vs. uptime pain threshold :) ]
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