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> Akamai faces the same macroeconomic headwinds of growing costs for data center space, energy, and hardware as other providers. We resisted making any changes to our offerings for as long as we could. Bro it's only been 2 weeks
I've been paying the same price for my Linode server for about 10 years. This seems fair.
I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
I've been a Linode customer for almost 15 years. As far as I remember, this is their first price increase ever . No surprise it happened post-acquisition :(
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Most hobbyists will use the $5 machines which are not changing, though.
I've been using Linode for more than a decade. I advise hobbyists not to use the cheapest VPS option and neither do I. Its noticeably less performant and just because you are a hobbyist or whatever doesn't mean you can't spend $10-20 per month. In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies.
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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.
It depends on the instance. If you use up the burst capacity, you will notice. The very bottom end only allows about 5% usage before the throttling kicks in. There's a chart here: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amaz...
But I do remember on another host (I tried a different one between linode and light sail) that I actually got an email that I was using too much CPU and was shut down.
So I do remember using a lot of CPU, but I don't know where that percent was.
I've been a Linode customer for almost 15 years. As far as I remember, this is their first price increase ever . No surprise it happened post-acquisition :(
I've been a customer of Linode since about the time they were created. I've also been a customer of Akamai in the past. Based on my experience with Akamai I was expecting this to happen just was not sure when it would. My personal strategy to mitigate cost spikes is to have accounts with numerous VPS providers as that does not cost anything and to re-balance my nodes based on uptime, performance and cost. I found tha…
I would definitely read a blog write-up of any length on this, if you either already have or would be interested at all in making one.
I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups. Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?
Linode has been such a great deal. Had been. I think the trick to saving money might be to find out how much RAM and CPU you actually need. If you really need the 20 cores and 96GB of RAM or whatever then that's another thing.
> Akamai faces the same macroeconomic headwinds of growing costs for data center space, energy, and hardware as other providers. We resisted making any changes to our offerings for as long as we could. Bro it's only been 2 weeks
Since the name change. To be fair, they bought Linode a year ago.
Admittedly not a Linode customer. DigitalOcean did me a solid about 5 years ago (support gave me a credit voucher to cover a month when I couldn't afford to renew in time to keep things online) and I've had no reason to look elsewhere. Fingers crossed their recent corner cutting doesn't ruin things.