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Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by relaxatorium »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #39
relaxatorium wrote: post #21

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.

Akamai doesn't have a reputation for being interested in the bottom of the market. They announced this price increase with 31 days' notice. Future price increases and policy changes can be expected to be announced on a similar schedule. 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?

Not really, that's why I'm reviewing other providers as per the second half of the sentence.

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by ethicalsmacker »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #31
ethicalsmacker wrote: post #23

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.

Even with the price increase, DO looks like it would be 2x Linode's cost for what I require.

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by ethicalsmacker »

gre wrote: post #27
ethicalsmacker wrote: post #23

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?

Hetzner is pretty good.

I'm looking into them, thanks!

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by ryandrake »

winrid wrote: post #35
antoineMoPa wrote: post #32

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…

Most hobbyists will use the $5 machines which are not changing, though.

Yep, as a 1GB Shared Nanode customer, that was the first thing I checked. Smart move. As a hobbyist I'm pretty price sensitive, and will not hesitate to abandon them if they go too far over their $4 competitors.

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by thaumaturgy »

tedivm wrote: post #38
thaumaturgy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

DigitalOcean is already more expensive for the same performance (as in, when you actually benchmark machines). I moved my workloads to Linode and cut my prices in half, so a 20% increase still leaves it as cheaper.

I suppose as usual it depends on what you're doing. For boring application hosting, DO has been indistinguishable from Linode performance-wise.

DO had excellent technical documentation, okay support (I really miss Linode's), and has been regularly churning out new products. For someone that doesn't like moving infrastructure around, they are a good long-term bet.

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Post by nerdjon »

csnover wrote: post #34

The message being sent to customers claims that they “remain more aggressively priced than our peer providers”, which is nonsense as far as I can tell—unless they now consider their “peer providers” to be the likes of AWS, Azure, and GCP? 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], an…

What is really weird about this, they are now more expensive than comparable systems on AWS Lightsail. (Assuming they have not already updated the pricing page on linode.com)

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing

So I am really not sure how they are looking at their "peers"

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by bombcar »

hjr265 wrote: post #10

This news is shared as a banner within the Linode Manager interface with the following text: "Effective 04/01/2023 the price of compute services will change by decreasing transfer fees and updating shared and dedicated plan rates. Read more."

I don’t know how many people hit transfer fees - a few VPS and you’ve got terebytes to spare. But the 20% hits everyone.

Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more

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Post by antoineMoPa »

winrid wrote: post #35
antoineMoPa wrote: post #32

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…

Most hobbyists will use the $5 machines which are not changing, though.

I mean that's nice, but it's not so nice for my 10$ instance.
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