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Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by asb »

agwa wrote: post #21

Linode has been a monumental disappointment. I signed up with them in 2005, when they were 2 years old and AWS didn't even exist. They were reliable and the support was phenomenal. The Linode Manager was powerful and yet simple to use. I used them for all my personal and professional hosting needs. In 2013, the support started going downhill. Then there were a series of security breaches, with absolutely abysmal resp…

I've been a Linode customer since January 2009 (so over 7 years now) and would recommend them to anyone. I have been concerned about some of the security issues, but at the same time impressed with other work from the team (the KVM switchover, large scale server upgrades, support experience has always been great for me).

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by pan69 »

azinman2 wrote: post #47
pan69 wrote: post #18

Congrats Linode. I have been a customer for many years. Why could there not be a $5 1 GB plan? I have quite a few instances for which I don't need even 1 GB, let alone 2. Doubling the RAM is great but what about storage? Why is RAM and storage still coupled? It's a pay for what you don't use system, having to upgrade to a 24 GB, 8 core box just to get some decent drive space. Ridiculous. I have been with Linode for m…

You can add disk space or ram independently, if I remember correctly, once you have a VM.

I know, they are "extras". $144 p/a for 12 GB of disk space. $240 p/a for 360 "MB" of RAM...

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by Veratyr »

ryanlol wrote: post #50
Veratyr wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assure you, I'm no shill. Like I said, RamNode does very well in benchmarks. My problem with them is that after being hacked, exposing my personal information, they refused to remove it, citing nebulous "legal reasons" compelling them to retain it (which similar hosts had no issues with). Frankly I haven't had another exchange with their support, so I can't comment on their service beyond good benchmarks, terrible…

Not only that, they've got a pretty interesting attitude to user information in general. http://imgur.com/a/TVVXq Here's a ticket conversation between the CEO of ramnode and a customer where the CEO Nick essentially attempts to extort the customer for information on one of his friends (me)

Wow, that's appalling behaviour from the CEO of the company. I can't say I'm surprised though, that was roughly what I expect from him after my own interactions.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by dang »

cpqq wrote: post #30

Sounds like a shill. RamNode consistently beats out Vultr on LowEndTalk. I remember the first days of Vultr when everyone signed up and saw other VMs and other people's billing information. RamNode has a great infrastructure, while most of Vultr's locations are single-homed. I'd check LowEndTalk and other sites, and ask Vultr about their disk RAID before choosing due to comments like this.

On HN, users aren't allowed to accuse others of being shills (or insinuate it) without evidence. An opposing view doesn't count as evidence.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11917707 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by dang »

cpqq wrote: post #26

Yes. Avoid. Keep snapshots if you have servers with them. All I can say. Ask about their data redundancy, and if servers have RAID. You will not get any clear answer for a reason. Oh, she praised them 49 days ago, she's a shill as well : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588937

If you have concerns about astroturfing in HN threads, the thing to do is email us (hn@ycombinator.com) so we can look into it. Casually accusing others in the threads, like you've done repeatedly here, is definitely not allowed, so please don't do that again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11917498 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by nsgf »

mgkimsal wrote: post #42
kjax wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their DDOS was so bad that we had to migrate all of our servers from Linode to Google, which wasn't particularly fun during the weeks of intermittent connectivity. I think it was on the order of weeks, rather than days.

Atlanta seemed to be the primary target. We had something at LA and never had a problem. Servers in Atlanta were down for days, then up for a bit, then down for days again. I do believe in total it was probably 2ish weeks...

London was affected too. I have since moved on to other VPS providers and would suggest Linode ONLY for hobby projects. It's not just their security issues, it is mostly their disclosure policy...

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by row1an »

red_phone wrote: post #29
tiffanyh wrote: post #12

Vultr.com seems to be the new guys coming after Linode. Does any [Linode users] have any experience with them? For a company so new they have a surprisingly amount of more features than Linode (eg BSD support, more data centers, dedicated instances, etc) Note: I'm no way affiliated with either company. Edit: adding clarity and intent. My edit is in brackets. I'm no shill :)

I've had a few instances up on Vultr for nearly a year now and have nothing but good things to say about them. The OS images they use for their instances are, in my experience, almost completely plain-vanilla (which leads to fewer surprises) and the custom ISO functionality is great if you need to launch an instance on an otherwise unsupported OS. Their instance performance is better than DO in my experience, though…

IME, DigitalOcean performance is usually a little lower than Linode, but some zones seem(ed) to be particularly bad. However, on the zones I do use, reliability on DO in 2016 has been the best of the three. I can hardly remember any outage at all.

Edit: Vultr has been reliable as well, but I've experienced a few outages (not lasting many minutes I think) in the 6 months I've been using them.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by LinuxBender »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #40
LinuxBender wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am looking forward to the updated interface and happy to see you are moving away from ColdFusion. I have been with Linode for many years and have always been happy with the service. Thank you and thanks to the Linode staff for everything they do. If there was one thing I would like to see come back, it would be the 1024 or 1536 nodes (1 or 1.5GB ram). I understand the overhead or scaling issues might not make it wo…

My team has nothing to do with that sort of decision, so forgive me for being vague, but I believe it's on the radar. The changes done today definitely help the odds.

I completely understand. No worries.

Re: Linode’s 13th Birthday

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Post by icpmacdo »

juliand wrote: post #48
pan69 wrote: post #18

Congrats Linode. I have been a customer for many years. Why could there not be a $5 1 GB plan? I have quite a few instances for which I don't need even 1 GB, let alone 2. Doubling the RAM is great but what about storage? Why is RAM and storage still coupled? It's a pay for what you don't use system, having to upgrade to a 24 GB, 8 core box just to get some decent drive space. Ridiculous. I have been with Linode for m…

Once Digital Ocean launches their block storage feature, it will probably put some pressure on them. Honestly, it's something I've been looking forward as well.

Some needs to make a lambda competetor too
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