Pricing Comparison: Cloud Hosts

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Post by smallegan » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 1:45 AM UTC

Pricing Comparison: Cloud Hosts
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Re: Pricing Comparison: Cloud Hosts

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Post by smallegan » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 1:48 AM UTC

Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.

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Post by dieselz » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:43 AM UTC

smallegan wrote: post #2

Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.

Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lightweight APIs (in terms of bandwidth). Memory and CPU cores are a far more relevant metric of value for an api deployment.

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Post by tonyplee » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:45 AM UTC

Love Linode or Digital Ocean's style who put storage and bandwidth clearly in the pricing chart!

I can't never figure how to calculate Google, AWS's storage, bandwidth cost. They seems to do that on purpose to confuse potential users.

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Post by Scarbutt » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:50 AM UTC

smallegan wrote: post #2

Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.

True, but bandwidth still is very expensive for the non-linode VPSs.

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Post by gelatocar » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:50 AM UTC

I quite like linode and have used them for years but it seems a bit disingenuous to not include competitors like digitalocean[1] and vultr[2] in this comparison. They have very similar pricing.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#droplet [2] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

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Post by sairamkunala » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:53 AM UTC

In general, Linode and DigitalOcean have been very competitive in terms of customer satisfaction for VPS.

In this case, Linode offers only 125 Mbps which could be less compared to other cloud providers.

From what I have seen in the startup world around me, small sized companies use AWS/Google/Azure for production systems and tend to use DigitalOcean/Linode for staging / developer environments given they manage their own Devops.

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Post by nwrk » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 3:30 AM UTC

Excellent customer confusion marketing mastery example.

Why not to increase bandwidth to 10TB to make the numbers even higher ?

Why not to include OVH or Scaleway ?

[1]https://www.ovh.com/us/ [2]https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

EDIT: To put to perspective Scaleway is on $3.2 USD/mo, while Linode $10 /mo

(not affiliated with Scaleway)

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Post by williamstein » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 4:23 AM UTC

tonyplee wrote: post #4

Love Linode or Digital Ocean's style who put storage and bandwidth clearly in the pricing chart! I can't never figure how to calculate Google, AWS's storage, bandwidth cost. They seems to do that on purpose to confuse potential users.

There is a table here which explains exactly how to calculate Google's bandwidth costs. Incoming network is free; outgoing costs between $0.08 and $0.23 per gigabyte, depending on where it is going.

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Post by candiodari » Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 5:41 AM UTC

dieselz wrote: post #3

smallegan wrote: post #2

Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.

Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lightweight APIs (in terms of bandwidth). Memory and CPU cores are a far more relevant metric of value for an api deployment.

For huge sites - perhaps. But do you do that for your own site ? For small business sites ?