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What does everyone use these low-end plans for? Seeing the interest in this thread has gotten me curious.
Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)
http://status.linode.com/ vs. https://status.digitalocean.com/ I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;) Anecdotal: I've seen ~5x as many VPS restarts due to host issues on DO than Linode.
Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)
I have only good experience with both. My linode (internet exposed) server has been running for almost 7 years now. My DO server (also internet exposed) is ~2 years old. These days I would spin up a DO by default because I am sucker for SSD. I might switch back to defaulting to linode with this new pricing. linode has a fantastic irc channel. Plus linode has IPv6 support which DO has promised _years_ ago. Just hop on…
I have just submitted a ticket to ask Linode about downgrading from my current $20 plan, since I host PHP websites only, and I use Ubuntu 32bit, and I don't want to take risks to switch the kernel to 64bit in order to take advantage of their recent free hardware upgrades: https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-... I don't see any reasons they'll not let me downgrade, since there is no reason to p…
Compared to DigitalOcean: RAM - Processor - HD - Transfer Linode 1GB - 1 Core - 24GB SSD - 2TB DigitalOcean 1GB - 1 Core - 30GB SSD - 2TB Very compelling pricing, I may actually migrate a pet project of mine to Linode because they have a more robust support system. Now all they need to do is accept Paypal payments because I live in a third world country and do not own an international credit card.
I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)
Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs.
If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example.
Companies smart enough to allow people in nothern-europe to actually pay: Valve, Apple. Companies dumb enough not to: EA, Google. Who is selling online and who is not?
Newsflash: If your sales numbers are less in Northern-Europe than they are in the US, it's because you are either actively blocking those customers (region-locks or refusal to ship) or you are not accepting n-european payment gateways.
Credit cards are the equivelant of saying 'i only want american customers and everybody else can go to hell'. Let's just hope your bussiness is viable enough in just the US to be this ignorant.
Compared to DigitalOcean: RAM - Processor - HD - Transfer Linode 1GB - 1 Core - 24GB SSD - 2TB DigitalOcean 1GB - 1 Core - 30GB SSD - 2TB Very compelling pricing, I may actually migrate a pet project of mine to Linode because they have a more robust support system. Now all they need to do is accept Paypal payments because I live in a third world country and do not own an international credit card.
I suspect that the two SSD are on different levels. Linode has higher standards. I don't know if the following benchmarks are real, but if it is we're talking about really different hardware (780 Mb/s vs 250 Mb/s) http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean Maybe someone with both accounts can do a quick benchmark to verify or deny this data.
Compared to DigitalOcean: RAM - Processor - HD - Transfer Linode 1GB - 1 Core - 24GB SSD - 2TB DigitalOcean 1GB - 1 Core - 30GB SSD - 2TB Very compelling pricing, I may actually migrate a pet project of mine to Linode because they have a more robust support system. Now all they need to do is accept Paypal payments because I live in a third world country and do not own an international credit card.
I suspect that the two SSD are on different levels. Linode has higher standards. I don't know if the following benchmarks are real, but if it is we're talking about really different hardware (780 Mb/s vs 250 Mb/s) http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean Maybe someone with both accounts can do a quick benchmark to verify or deny this data.
https://twitter.com/linode/status/478548938010939392 for 10$ promo code if you want to try out. DigitalOcean very often gives out credits for testing, first time I see Linode doing that.
What does everyone use these low-end plans for? Seeing the interest in this thread has gotten me curious.
Does anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)
http://status.linode.com/ vs. https://status.digitalocean.com/ I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;) Anecdotal: I've seen ~5x as many VPS restarts due to host issues on DO than Linode.
Of course, this is all anecdotal, but Linode really does seem to over report on their status page. And DO perhaps under reports.