PSA: If you're using the Linode API, the 2048 plan is now PlanID 2 and the new 1024 plan is now PlanID 1. The other PlanIDs were incremented by one as well. I wish they hadn't done that, but there it is.
That's really not cool.
High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
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Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pure guess, but I'd imagine that payment processor fees don't make it particularly profitable to offer price levels much lower than $5.
Make it so you have to buy at least 2 months then
Or even pay up front for the year. Perfect for the hobbyist market. I'd probably buy four of them.
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#73Can we stop ignoring the fact that Linode has been hacked several times and responded terribly in every case?
That is why I stopped using Linode. It wasn't the fact they got hacked, as much as they minimized and lied about the extent of it.
Same here. Why aren't we more unforgiving about such lies? It is, after all, a commoditized service.
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#74I used to use Linode for some projects, and really appreciated their speed and server quality, which seemed better than Digital Ocean at the time. But after using them for 12-18 months, and losing several days of data due to the 2015 DDoS, and reading about more and more security issues, I switched back to DO and haven't looked back. The performance differences aren't noticeable to me, and I'd rather have my hosting…
We moved >1K$ hosting per month from them to StormOnDemand because of the lack of transparency on security issues, particularly the PagerDuty incident. This was heartbreaking because Linode's value (performance, reliability, support, price) is almost impossible to match if your requirements fit their VM configurations. But in the end, we did not want to risk another security or DDoS fiasco. We estimated that the risk…
>but I believe they still use their old coldfusion applications.
For now, yeah. But the new Manager mentioned in the blog post is just a client for our new API, which is written in Python.[1]
You can even check out the new Manager now if you want: https://github.com/linode/manager
It's still in alpha (and separate from our regular service), but we're hoping to have it out in beta soon!
[1] https://engineering.linode.com/2016/04/12/Announcing-APIv4.h...
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#75Earlier 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.
Keep in mind that bandwidth bottlenecks can happen on both sides - depending on the peering that is chosen between Comcast and DigitalOcean, there might be a significant oversubscription between two peering providers that's causing this.
DigitalOcean might happily be able to push 10g to their next hop, but beyond that things are significantly more outside of their control. This is mistaken as 'throttling' a lot, but is actually just ISPs not investing in peering to handle their peak demand. Similar to the Netflix and Cogent issue that happened a couple of years back.
At times, I can get better speeds by tunneling or proxying using a DigitalOcean Droplet and downloading something from overseas than I can doing it directly. The path taken from my home internet to the DO Droplet uses different peering than my path to Europe, and the speeds are faster overall even though it creates more hops.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#76Linode 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…
IwStack (by Prometeus) can be customized quite a bit storage-wise:
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#77AH! Linode! You used to have a $5/mo plan and you got rid of it. I found and switched to DO. I would have stuck with you but I only use it to mess about and 10$ was too steep.
If you make it $5 Canadian I'll switch back.
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#78Linode 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…
Delimiter has a clever solution for $10 a month. They call it Slot Hosting. You ship them a disk and they'll host it and attach it as additional storage on a VPS.
https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/
I use it to host an 8tb drive that I then attach to a dedicated server I rent for $20 a month.
$30 a month and I have a server that I use for Plex (16 cores, 3.2ghz, 32 gigs of memory, and 10tb of total storage).
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#79I'm really curious to what people plan on doing with such insane amounts of ram. Maybe it's possible to scale with just RAM! Fire up a uWSGI + Flask and up the RAM as traffic increases.
database servers, redis and memcached I'm guessing. All of which are basically designed to take a memory-time tradeoff.
Yes, this is what I use my high-memory servers for. Giant memcached and redis slabs.
Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes
#80Linode 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…
Delimiter has a clever solution for $10 a month. They call it Slot Hosting. You ship them a disk and they'll host it and attach it as additional storage on a VPS. https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/ I use it to host an 8tb drive that I then attach to a dedicated server I rent for $20 a month. $30 a month and I have a server that I use for Plex (16 cores, 3.2ghz, 32 gigs of memory, and 10tb of total storage).
Thanks for sharing - this is really cool.