Linode increases price of compute plans and more
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Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#2My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008.
Now I can expect another 20%?
I don't understand why there is a cost for IPs other than trying to prevent people from "wasting" them.
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#3I've been a Linode customer for almost 15 years. As far as I remember, this is their first price increase ever. No surprise it happened post-acquisition :(
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#4I've been a Linode customer for almost 15 years. As far as I remember, this is their first price increase ever . No surprise it happened post-acquisition :(
Same here. One of the things that made me a loyal Linode customer was that often they would have a resource upgrade (i.e. "we've doubled your RAM!") without a price increase. Not pairing this with some kind of resource upgrade feel anti-Linode. Thanks Akamai...
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#5I've been a Linode customer for almost 15 years. As far as I remember, this is their first price increase ever . No surprise it happened post-acquisition :(
I have been using Linode for a little less than 15 years.
Linode's development has slowed to a crawl since this acquisition unless you start considering "Network updates to connect existing core sites to the Akamai backbone" and the likes as development.
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#6My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008. Now I can expect another 20%? I don't understand why there is a cost for IPs other than trying to prevent people from "wasting" them.
IPv4 addresses are a scarce resource and we’re running out of them. Of course they will go up in price.
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#7I've been a customer of Linode since about the time they were created. I've also been a customer of Akamai in the past. Based on my experience with Akamai I was expecting this to happen just was not sure when it would.
My personal strategy to mitigate cost spikes is to have accounts with numerous VPS providers as that does not cost anything and to re-balance my nodes based on uptime, performance and cost. I found that an unexpected benefit to this method makes it easier to mitigate VPS region outages and forces me to use better automation practices even with my silly hobby sites.
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#8I've been a Linode customer for almost 15 years. As far as I remember, this is their first price increase ever . No surprise it happened post-acquisition :(
Same here. One of the things that made me a loyal Linode customer was that often they would have a resource upgrade (i.e. "we've doubled your RAM!") without a price increase. Not pairing this with some kind of resource upgrade feel anti-Linode. Thanks Akamai...
I remember those days :). Support was always reachable in IRC which doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#9My Linode costs have already gone up 20% this year when they started charging VAT. :/ I have been with Linode since 2008. Now I can expect another 20%? I don't understand why there is a cost for IPs other than trying to prevent people from "wasting" them.
IPv4 addresses are a scarce resource and we’re running out of them. Of course they will go up in price.
But isn't it against IANA policy to sell or let other resell IPs?
Re: Linode increases price of compute plans and more
#10This news is shared as a banner within the Linode Manager interface with the following text:
"Effective 04/01/2023 the price of compute services will change by decreasing transfer fees and updating shared and dedicated plan rates. Read more."