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I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
We need a new independent VPS provider.
I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
The main alternatives in the budget cloud space are Digital Ocean, Vultr, OvH etc - they're all similarly priced for the equivalent servers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they all start increasing their prices to match - DO especially as they recently laid off a load of employees.
Hetzner Cloud’s price is ~40% of Linode’s new price[0], OVHcloud ~50–60%[1], and Vultr ~80%[2]. Of the big-name VPS providers, I think only DigitalOcean is more expensive now[3], and so they will be the same after this change.
A “bold new approach to the cloud”[4], indeed.
[0] https://www.hetzner.com/cloud
[1] https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/compare/
[2] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
[3] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
[4] https://www.linode.com/blog/linode/a-bold-new-approach-to-th...
That's a really anti-hobbyist move. With CAD losing value compared to USD, it means I have been paying more in the last year already. As a tiny hobby developper who has almost no traffic, lower egress fees mean nothing to me and the higher pricing means I'll just kill my projects. I guess they don't care about losing loyal customers and are shifting towards entreprise. It's a bit sad to sell your business to people w…
I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
I've been happy with DigitalOcean, although they recently laid off their technical documentation team, which was terrible news. Otherwise, it's been rock solid and performs well.
My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008. Now I can expect another 20%? I don't understand why there is a cost for IPs other than trying to prevent people from "wasting" them.
I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
I've been happy with DigitalOcean, although they recently laid off their technical documentation team, which was terrible news. Otherwise, it's been rock solid and performs well.
As a small business running like 30 Linode instances, this isn’t “hit the ejector seat button” stuff but it is absolutely “move up the schedule to check-in with all other cloud providers RE: pricing” stuff.
Do you really want to wait until they announce a "hit the ejector seat button" change and you only have 30 days to make the move?
I've been a Linode customer for almost 15 years. As far as I remember, this is their first price increase ever . No surprise it happened post-acquisition :(
Also, most of the time, reverting the increases would take renegotiating things with support. Recently, it changed into requiring destroying my machines and creating new ones from scratch, what besides an improvement, is still as hard as migrating to another provider.
Anyway, I was not entirely dissatisfied with them, but this one is a sleazy behavior.