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High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by ben_bai »

msbarnett wrote: post #16

Digital Ocean really needs to cut their prices at this point. There's no compelling reason to pay them 50% more for the same thing.

I don't get the whole VPS thing anyway. 5$ for playing around is great but anything that costs more is just not worth it.

60$/month for 16GB, 1CPU, 20GB disk for VPS... in comparison a root server with real remote console access, 16GB, 4 core AMD, 4TB disks, unlimited traffic costs me 30EUR/month (30$/month).

Or for 60EUR/month (60$) I could get a root server with 64GB Ram, 2x500GB SSD, i7-6700, 30TB traffic.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by duncanawoods »

00deadbeef wrote: post #44
flaviuspopan wrote: post #18

I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.

Aren't they slow Atom C2750 cores though?

I believe the cheaper ones are the even slower C2550s. Another worry is the flaw thats been affecting the whole C range:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline...

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by inlineint »

It would be really fascinating if you added GPU instances with GTX 1080 cards. These cards could allow you to make the prices much lower than those of AWS GPU instances that use K-80 and make it a perfect fit for Deep Learning applications that don't require double precision.

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Post by duncanawoods »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #50
ovi256 wrote: post #5

OVH.com is selling 2GB VMs for 2.99 Euros per month. No idea about over-provisioning or any comparison with Linode though.

I use OVH. Their support is horrendous though. For example, I put in a support request at mid-day this Saturday to ask if their geo-ip feature where you can select which country you want an additional IP to appear to be from, meant that the IP address actually terminated in that country. They didn't get back to me until this morning (3 days later), and the response was a bit vague. I bought some new IPs 4 hours ago f…

Meh, doesn't sound too bad to me. Its not like your machine has failed and they are not responding. You use OVH/Hetzner with the understanding that the great prices come from minimal support and the hardware will be used or desktop class. Hetzner support is strictly standard office hours. If you want instant responses, you can pay 10x at another provider but you chose not to.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by mwpmaybe »

Matheus28 wrote: post #84
mwpmaybe wrote: post #45

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 sucks. Those PlanIDs should never change.

Well, they've changed in the past... it's fine as long as the plans corresponding to the PlanIDs never get smaller or more expensive. This particular change violates that assumption and so is definitely not fine.

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Post by Lownin »

deftnerd wrote: post #78
pjungwir wrote: post #25

Linode 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).

Which hosting plan are you using for Plex?

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by jamroom »

mwpmaybe wrote: post #45

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.

Yep just got bit by this as well. We're heavy users of the API and this was a surprise. Would have preferred some notification about the change OR better yet, just create these instances with new plan ID's.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by mjrpes »

pjungwir wrote: post #25

Linode 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…

I am in the same boat. Need additional storage for less random-access demanding data, like photos/videos. If you check the Linode forums, they have begun to work on block storage option, like Vulr/DO. But it is still early in the design phase and they don't have an estimate launch date yet.

Re: High-Memory Instances and $5 Linodes

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Post by Matheus28 »

mwpmaybe wrote: post #86
Matheus28 wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sucks. Those PlanIDs should never change.

Well, they've changed in the past... it's fine as long as the plans corresponding to the PlanIDs never get smaller or more expensive. This particular change violates that assumption and so is definitely not fine.

The hardcoded plan (PlanID 2) that I had in my program was pointing to a 4 GB 2 CPU plan (4 GB), now it's pointing to a 2 GB 1 CPU plan (2 GB).
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