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Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

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Post by mestudent » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 2:41 PM UTC

ajtaylor wrote: post #90

zedpm wrote: post #55

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Unlike Linode, Rackspace Cloud decouples the server pricing from the bandwidth pricing. A base server on Rackspace is cheap and it remains so if you use very little bandwidth. If you calculate the Rackspace cost using the maximum bandwidth bundled with a comparable Linode VPS then Rackspace is indeed more expensive.

Don't forget the flat $100/mo account fee for any month you have servers active too. Based on my reading of this fee, having a single server means you're paying several multiples of what an equivalent account with Linode would be. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server... " In addition to the hourly service fee of 12¢/hour per server, a $100 flat, monthly account fee will be assessed when at lea…

I'm pretty sure that fee is only for managed servers (meaning you are paying $100 for full support) and isn't charged just for your instance usage.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jun 17, 2011, 2:41 PM UTC

ajtaylor wrote: post #90

zedpm wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike Linode, Rackspace Cloud decouples the server pricing from the bandwidth pricing. A base server on Rackspace is cheap and it remains so if you use very little bandwidth. If you calculate the Rackspace cost using the maximum bandwidth bundled with a comparable Linode VPS then Rackspace is indeed more expensive.

Don't forget the flat $100/mo account fee for any month you have servers active too. Based on my reading of this fee, having a single server means you're paying several multiples of what an equivalent account with Linode would be. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server... " In addition to the hourly service fee of 12¢/hour per server, a $100 flat, monthly account fee will be assessed when at lea…

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Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

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Post by steve___ » Sat, Jun 18, 2011, 4:28 AM UTC

paraschopra wrote: post #19

Congrats on the anniversary. To provide a balanced perspective on this thread, let me share our experience. We (Visual Website Optimizer) are hosted on Linode since beginning but have experienced degradation of service lately particularly around network availability. There is at least one minor outage every month in their Newark data center (planning around network outage is much harder). While their support is respo…

We use the Newark data center and monitor our server with Nagios. In the past 90 days I have not received an alert because the connection was down.

Re: Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%

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Post by hartror » Mon, Jun 20, 2011, 5:35 AM UTC

keidian wrote: post #79

hartror wrote: post #74

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I am pretty happy with Linode for the most part and haven't experienced many issues. However when we have had issues, diagnosed the issue and filed a ticket we get always get told it is a known issue and "Apologize for inconvenience". Why do I have to contact them to be told they are having an issue? Why can't they let me know asap so I can mitigate any problems they are having. The last issue we had was their backup…

You can check their status page at http://status.linode.com/ or drop by irc.oftc.net in the #linode channel. They also usually tweet as well.

None of which they had done. And their backup system isn't exactly something straight forward to setup monitoring of to notice there was an issue.