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High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by ve55 »

Karunamon wrote: post #26
flaviuspopan wrote: post #18

I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.

I probably wouldn't host a blog there. Their ToS[1] has, among other things: - A prohibition against the propagation of data, images or sounds that may constitute defamation, an insult, denigration, or an infringement of privacy, image rights, good morals, or public order - Users are required to use decent and respectful language - Users are reminded that they must update software without excessive delay when a secur…

I was concerned about this as well. I use Scaleway but I don't host any websites with notable content there.

I haven't heard much about these terms being held against users, so I'm not sure how much action there would really be behind this type of stuff. With that said, it is definitely more comfortable to be on a host that doesn't have terms that are this strict.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by x0x0 »

nik736 wrote: post #31
edko wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rather than cut prices (I think $5 is low enough), I would prefer if they would beef up their specs. For $5, DO gives you only 512MB vs 1GB from Linode.

Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!

That 10gbps is highly variable.

I use one of my DO instances as staging for file transfers. 2 days a month, I can barely get more than 30K/s from their sf data center to comcast. Other days, I get 5M/s. Their network is shitty.

And I don't think I'm being rate-limited; it's 1-2G transfer per day.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by falcolas »

nilved wrote: post #48

Can we stop ignoring the fact that Linode has been hacked several times and responded terribly in every case?

In the current environment, I personally believe that it's safe to say that everybody has been hacked to some degree. Linode being open about it, even if not having the perfect response, strangely makes me feel better. Being a customer while this occurred and not feeling any impact makes me feel even better still.

Having to go in and change my password is hardly an exceptional event on today's internet.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by msbarnett »

Crisco wrote: post #38
msbarnett wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

6-of-1, half a dozen of the other. Halving their prices on all current instances gives you the same specs at the same pricepoints. I don't particularly care if they keep around a 512MB/$2.50 instance at that point.

I would, however, love that price point. It would be nice if I could run a few light-weight services on a VPS for $2.50 a month and then put my websites and other projects on a beefier VM. I currently use Linode, but if DigitalOcean offered something at that pricepoint they would be getting $2.50 more from me a month than they currently do.

Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by chrisan »

pjungwir wrote: post #25

Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode…

DigitalOcean has their new block storage https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by Veratyr »

pjungwir wrote: post #25

Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode…

If you want disk, as in spinning rust, I think it's going to remain that way for a long time. For some reason cloud providers don't like to offer disk at a reasonable price. I suspect it might be because it's not actually a single disk but space on something like a RAID10 SAN, where costs are higher since it inherently requires more hardware.

Personally, I settled with colocation. I pay $60/mo + $2k one-off for the initial hardware + say $150/5y/4TB HDD, which, for 80TB of storage over 5y comes out to a total of ~$88/mo, or $0.001/GBmo. Even if I was to store 3 copies of everything instead of doing erasure coding, my costs are roughly half of what Backblaze B2 charges. And my disks are fully online block storage, not necessarily object storage.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by nik736 »

x0x0 wrote: post #52
nik736 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you get a 10 Gbps pipe with DO, while only 75 Mbps with Linode, lol!

That 10gbps is highly variable. I use one of my DO instances as staging for file transfers. 2 days a month, I can barely get more than 30K/s from their sf data center to comcast. Other days, I get 5M/s. Their network is shitty. And I don't think I'm being rate-limited; it's 1-2G transfer per day.

Only new locations (FRA, SFO2) have the 10 Gbps pipe, and I am constantly able to push 2-5 Gbps through it in Frankfurt.
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