Linode increases price of compute plans and more

Post by elforce002 » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 4:34 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #29

dan1234 wrote: post #14

Does this mean we can expect similar announcements from the other budget cloud providers (they all seem to be around the same price points) or is it time to jump?

Digital Ocean already increased its prices recently, then laid off a bunch of people. So the meager support it used to have is now gone. Word on HN is that it's getting bought by Microsoft. If that's true it makes sense that DO would go away entirely.

Post by loloquwowndueo » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 4:36 PM UTC

Post by shiftpgdn » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 4:37 PM UTC

nerdjon wrote: post #47

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"

Post by tedivm » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 4:38 PM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #45

tedivm wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Post by napsterbr » Wed, Mar 01, 2023, 4:39 PM UTC

nerdjon wrote: post #62

tyingq wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, though, the lightsail instances that are subject to oppressive throttling aren't really a good comparison. Those should be dirt cheap, as they are useless if you use them in almost any real fashion.

I had some personal projects a while ago that I used to run on Linode, I later moved them to LightSail and I never noticed any performance difference in these projects running there. These were Ruby on Rails projects.