2TB is good... their old bandwidth was paltry.
Everyone chant with me: price war! price war! price war!
Linode Nextgen: The Network
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Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I had around 600 on one of my machines in Newark until I forgot to update my credit card info and they shut them off.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#73Find this interesting? OVH is already upgrading routers to 100gbps and 500gbps versions. http://www.infinera.com/j7/servlet/NewsItem?newsItemID=336
OVH is super impressive. I really hope they manage to get better brand recognition in these parts.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Same here, I've never had any outage issues with the London datacenter.
Though I had one issue where I couldn't install 64bit image to the server. I sent an support ticket about it and in less than ten minutes the whole thing was sorted out.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I can't comment on your particular case, but it sounds odd that they didn't help out. Certainly not my experience with their support so far (and I've been with Linode for probably 4 or 5 years now and used their support on many occasions) 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 on…
I needed to keep the old IP during changeover so that DNS had time to update.
Not bashing linode, because I think they do a fine job - I have two servers with a year and a half of uptime. But I don't think the support is a valid reason for them charging more than their competitors.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
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#77Woo Hoo! I really don't understand much about what you guys are doing, but well, I'm a happy linode customer, so whatever it is that you are doing to make things faster, better, bring it on!
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#78I 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…
Support matters. When your neighbor is being DDOSed and you're offline as collateral damage, active support is the difference between happy customers and angry customer losses. For hobby boxes, yeah, sure, use whatever is the most cost-efficient.
I actually found Linode support to be terrible. It's fast, but it's not honest. If there is interest about the issue that happened to me (Backups went down), I'll write a blog post about it.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#79Linode 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…
Completely agree. Cost of RAM (as disk cache for Postgres) is the one thing that's made me wonder about leaving Linode lately. They're otherwise utterly great.
Cost of RAM, and the lack of SSD options.
Re: Linode Nextgen: The Network
#80I have a hard time trusting Linode after the major March 2012 security incident where an attacker compromised an internal system that let him gain access to any Linode Manager accounts: http://status.linode.com/2012/03/manager-security-incident.h... and basically had access to all customers servers ! I have a hard time trusting them because they specifically gave very little information. I would have expected a follo…
This type of thing is my primary complaint about linode. Their transparency on things that make them look even slightly bad is basically non existent.