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11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by spurofthemoment »

ralfn wrote: post #45
ekar45 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)

I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs. If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example. C…

Which country are you in exactly? Because AFAIK, in most Northern European countries people have credit cards (or at least debit cards).

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by gtaylor »

subbu wrote: post #90

How does this compare to Hetzner's servers? Lets say http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq12

The only correct answer is: benchmark according to your specific application's needs, since your demands may be different than mine or someone else's.

For more general benchmarks, this is handy: http://serverbear.com/

But really, spin them up and test for the things that your usage case most needs. My stuff doesn't hit the disk at all, so the fact that Hetzner doesn't (at a glance) appear to be SSD-backed wouldn't bother me, but might not be OK for someone else's usage case.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by chc »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #88
chc wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't debit cards generally be used as credit cards?

Yes, but without the credit part.

But I mean, in the context of accepting payments online, debit cards aren't really an alternative to credit cards, are they? The two go hand-in-hand. Merchants that accept credit generally accept debit, so you're fine in that situation if you prefer debit.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by spurofthemoment »

misterbwong wrote: post #36

What does everyone use these low-end plans for? Seeing the interest in this thread has gotten me curious.

VPSes with 1 GB of RAM are more than enough to host a couple of web apps (depending on traffic of course) with Python, PHP, or similar setups. When Linode started out, their bottom offering was actually 512 MB if I remember correctly, and SliceHost (later Rackspace Cloud) had 256 MB offerings.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by yogo »

skylan_q wrote: post #3

I was considering getting a vps with them (since DO is dropping support for arch) but $20/month seemed like too much of a commitment for some hobby work. Now I'm sold. :)

I wasn't aware of this but found https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-will-h...

One of my big reasons for having a few DO instances was the price + having Arch--many of the cheap providers don't provide Arch images. This new Linode plan will be a good option for the lower-end needs.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by yogo »

abhorrence wrote: post #50
opendais wrote: post #12

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http://status.linode.com/ vs. https://status.digitalocean.com/ I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;) Anecdotal: I've seen ~5x as many VPS restarts due to host issues on DO than Linode.

DO pretty much never seems to post anything on their status page unless it affects a lot of their customers -- I've had support tickets with them where they say a problem is affecting "some" customers, but they pretty much never posted it on their status page. Whereas Linode seems to post status problems far more frequently, and pretty much none of the problems listed have ever affected any of my nodes. Of course, th…

This. My experience has been that Linode is very transparent about status messages, and I'd even go so far as to say the most transparent I've seen. Usually if an external service reports a timeout to me and I visit the status page there is often an investigation notice posted regarding network latency.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by yogo »

erikano wrote: post #38
zapt02 wrote: post #5

Linode is taking up the fight with DigitalOcean! With Linodes great reputation I'm sure a lot of people on DO will be trying their service in the coming weeks.

I have a VPS with DigitalOcean and for some reason, logging in over SSH takes disturbingly long. I may decide to switch over to Linode with these new prices.

I have experienced this too. I never inquired but it seems worse on NY2.

Re: 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan

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Post by yen223 »

chc wrote: post #77
jiggy2011 wrote: post #73

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Debit card

Can't debit cards generally be used as credit cards?

Debit cards are the same as credit cards, but without the credit, the protections, or the reward points. As long as you can maintain financial discipline, there's really no reason to be using a debit card.
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