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Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by bhousel » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

edwinyzh wrote: post #31

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…

FWIW, I am in the same situation as you, but I did perform the kernel upgrade and it was quick and painless..

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by rogerdpack » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

erikano wrote: post #38

zapt02 wrote: post #5

Linode is taking up the fight with DigitalOcean! With Linodes great reputation I'm sure a lot of people on DO will be trying their service in the coming weeks.

I have a VPS with DigitalOcean and for some reason, logging in over SSH takes disturbingly long. I may decide to switch over to Linode with these new prices.

Yeah no kidding why is that I wonder...

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by wrboyce » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

ralfn wrote: post #45

ekar45 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)

I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. 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. C…

> 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.

In the UK I do as much online shopping as possible on my credit card. I get the added protection of the Consumer Credit Act[1], and prizes![2]

[1] http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75...

[2] http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/best-credit-ca...

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by TheOtherHobbes » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

ralfn wrote: post #45

ekar45 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)

I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. 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. C…

I also live in Europe and I've had no problem paying Linode with a debit card.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by guylhem » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

I'm new to linode. What is their outgoing bandwidth policy?

I mean, is it possible to automatically set up a throttle, to avoid charges when going over 2TB? (or do I have to fiddle with iptables to find a way to do that).

Also, do you know if it's possible to get a /48 IPv6?

On https://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6 they only mention /56

I'd hate to run a HE tunnelbroker just because they don't support that :-/ (I love HE.net and tunnelbroker.net, but it would just be wasteful)

EDIT: /48 make running multiple VPNs very easy - that's lazy, but IPv6 are not scarce resources!

EDIT2: just got an answer - they can't do /48 :-(

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by ohashi » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:48 PM UTC

misterbwong wrote: post #36

What does everyone use these low-end plans for? Seeing the interest in this thread has gotten me curious.

I spin up a lot of these low end instances for testing and small projects.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

xienze wrote: post #24

agwa wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, $20/month has always been their least-expensive plan. In fact, caker (their founder) was adamant for a very long time against creating a less-expensive plan. (I've been customer for 9 years, and have occasionally hung out in their forums where caker also hangs out.)

You sure about that? I'm almost positive they've had a $10 plan before. When I signed up a few years ago I needed 1GB of RAM and the cheapest plan only had 512MB. I ended up paying $20 (well, $19.95 or whatever it was) and still do. Up until just recently my plan has always been the "one step up" plan from entry level. It was only with the "we doubled everything" announcement that they got rid of the plan below mine.

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Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by RKearney » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

guylhem wrote: post #55

I'm new to linode. What is their outgoing bandwidth policy? I mean, is it possible to automatically set up a throttle, to avoid charges when going over 2TB? (or do I have to fiddle with iptables to find a way to do that). Also, do you know if it's possible to get a /48 IPv6? On https://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6 they only mention /56 I'd hate to run a HE tunnelbroker just because they don't support that :-/ (…

What use case do you have for requiring a /48 on one server? That's 65536 /64s.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by guylhem » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

Use promo code LINODE10 and you'll get $10 off - ie one free month! You'll be charged $5 on your credit card, but your account will then show a $15 credit.

Feel free to use my referral code 9ed7a90501142890c1c8cfca43f1c872e7494470 or link https://www.linode.com/?r=9ed7a90501142890c1c8cfca43f1c872e7... so that I benefit from it too :-)

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by shiven » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

ralfn wrote: post #45

ekar45 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)

I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. 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. C…

Why are credit cards 'evil'? Honest question.

I mean they don't go spend themselves, are protected 100% against fraud (in the US at least) and if paid in full every month, cost nothing to the card holder.

If anything, it is not a company's fault that Northern Europe has social/cultural hang-ups for a mode of payment!