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I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwi…
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Yea. I'm hoping as part of this nextgen upgrade they announce more RAM. SSDs would of course be nice too, but more RAM is what I want the most
For less than the price of a 4GB linode get a 32GB SSD server from OVH http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/sp_32g_ssd.xml or a multitude of others http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/8302/99-e3-32-gb-list-o... .
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Err. Linode has pretty average performance compared to the SSD providers. And during my time as a customer Linode was the worst out of all the VPS I had ever tried up until that point. Constant outages at Fremont and heard about the same at London DC as well.
Just logged in to one of my servers in the London DC. 952 days of uptime, so in my case it has been pretty stable over the past couple years.
Linode is definitely one of the best VPS providers. They don't market it as 'fanatical', but their support is simply incredible. I like AWS too, but the lack of support (unless you pay loads) keeps me with Linode. Nextgen sounds cool. Extra bandwidth is great. I also hope they add more RAM and provide some kind of a storage pool to store images/snapshots/virtual-disks between different linodes (similar to cloudfiles…
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Managed cloud at rackspace starts at $100 plus usage charges. Seems a bit high.
If managed, but unmanaged starts at $16.xx for 512MB and outbound traffic is at 0.12/GB I think
Neat. But it's really the hardware size that's the restricting feature of linode. In particular: Memory.
Linode is definitely one of the best VPS providers. They don't market it as 'fanatical', but their support is simply incredible. I like AWS too, but the lack of support (unless you pay loads) keeps me with Linode. Nextgen sounds cool. Extra bandwidth is great. I also hope they add more RAM and provide some kind of a storage pool to store images/snapshots/virtual-disks between different linodes (similar to cloudfiles…
My linode IP ended up on an email block list because of someone else on the subnet. I was on vacation so I wanted a quick solution and I asked for an extra IP for a week. They wouldn't do for any amount of money. I had to set up an extra server and redirect connections instead.
I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwi…
Many of the hosts are run by kids trying to strike it rich with barely a few months worth of experience.
Here's some of the things to watch out for.
- IOwait so high that it takes several seconds for ls to run.
- Complete data loss
- Random packet loss because of all the people sharing a link or getting ddosed.
- Hosts going bankrupt when they realize that no one is going to buy them out just because they have a bunch of customers obtained with their loss leading deals.
If you have a good experience with them you probably:
- Didn't stay on the node long enough for it to get overloaded
- Are extremely lucky
- Barely use the VPS
Linode is overpriced, but the deals on lowendbox aren't a great alternative.
I never quite understood the love for premium vps like linode (also remember slicehost?). If you check out lowendbox vps, their top-rated providers almost always beats linode (and alike) in almost all category you can think of. Its nice that they are now increasing the bandwidth cap, but it was on the low side to begin with. My takeaway from this is that "linode finally joins everyone else in network speed and bandwi…
You advise basing the most critical part of your business on the cheapest offering possible?
Linode is definitely one of the best VPS providers. They don't market it as 'fanatical', but their support is simply incredible. I like AWS too, but the lack of support (unless you pay loads) keeps me with Linode. Nextgen sounds cool. Extra bandwidth is great. I also hope they add more RAM and provide some kind of a storage pool to store images/snapshots/virtual-disks between different linodes (similar to cloudfiles…
Their support is quick, but they only solve the problem if it's easy. My linode IP ended up on an email block list because of someone else on the subnet. I was on vacation so I wanted a quick solution and I asked for an extra IP for a week. They wouldn't do for any amount of money. I had to set up an extra server and redirect connections instead.
However, it's so easy to fire-up another linode, shut down the host, move the disk image to the new linode, assign it and turn it on. You get a new IP, and can get rid of the old one. And all this via their web interface and with no need for support...