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No real reason to use Linode any more, either. The AWS skill set is valuable in the industry and using it for your personal stuff gives you a leg up careerwise.
by jsmthrowaway 11y ago
No real reason to use Linode any more, either. The AWS skill set is valuable in the industry and using it for your personal stuff gives you a leg up careerwise.
My AWS skills (VPC architecture, Direct Connect, boto, etc.) have been a big hiring plus for me in the past. Since nobody relevant uses Linode for production any more due to security and other issues, probably time to move personal blogs and accrue transferable skills.
People also compare the big holy wow bandwidth/SSD/CPU offered by DO and Linode without accounting for the fact that you could almost never use it all at the price point without hitting (a) capacities of the instance and (b) annoyed employees. Jeff's data on how successful their CPU quota accounting is backs this up. If you're pegging a core in your workload you should probably own the core.
Seriously, think about it. DO offers you a terabyte on the low end plan. You have to sustain 3 megabit/sec every second of every day to hit that. Maybe in some scenarios you are, but almost nobody running personal gear is doing that. The higher levels are even more ridiculous. But the sales stuff works: people are concerned about it in this thread, merely the potential to use instead of paying for actual.
- copperx 11y ago> nobody relevant uses Linode for production any more due to security and other issues I'm not in the industry (I'm in higher education), but this is news to me. Are there any use cases where Digital Ocean/Linode would be better than AWS? A small blog, website, perhaps?
- jsmthrowaway 11y agoWith the introduction of the t2.nano, not really. Even if you don't want to go Amazon, GCE is super useful for personal stuff too. Old school VPS providers can't compete due to resources. Amazon and Google have far more people working on perf, security, and so on. Sadly, VPS providers are going the way of shared hosting.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoYou mean they'll still be around a long time and cheaper than ever? ;)
- copperx 11y agoYour comment has really tempted me to switch to AWS from DO just to try the waters of the cloud. However, the terminology and all the different services offered by AWS are mind-boggling. Are there any good introductions to cloud computing you could recommend?
- jon-wood 11y agoIf you're coming from running standalone servers on DO you don't need to worry about most of AWS' services. To get the equivalent you'll need to read up on the basics of: EC2, which provides you with the actual server. EBS, their network attached storage which your server will boot from. Elastic IPs, to give the server a stable public IP address you can point DNS at. And Security Groups, which don't have a DO equivalent, but control network access to your server. They're arguably worth moving from DO for alone. If you just want to test the waters then EC2's startup wizard will handle all this for you, and you don't really have to think much more about it than you would on DO. However, you've then got the ability to grow into the rest of AWS as you need it.
- chishaku 11y agoA quick intro to the different AWS services: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
- michaelbuckbee 11y agoAnd just today I wrote the one for Azure: https://www.expeditedssl.com/azure-in-plain-english https://www.expeditedssl.com/azure-in-plain-english
- nly 11y agoYou seem to be brushing off the fact that the vast majority of even the tech-savvy market simply doesn't require the flexibility of AWS and will happily go get better perf (CPU, disk), and more memory and transfer, at a fraction of the cost elsewhere. The nano doesn't tempt me to move any of the half dozen or so VPS's I have running to AWS in the slightest. I'll stick to vendors who answer support tickets from the little guys, oversell fairly, and don't have a ridiculously complex pricing structure. And shared hosting isn't dead. Plenty of small businesses still pay good money for managed shared hosting to run their webpages etc, instead of paying a wannabe-sysadmin who probably doesn't even shell-in to the VPS once a month. My uncle runs a small business and pays his webmaster around $30/month for a website running off an IP that hosts at least 3,300 other domains...most of them small businesses just like his. Someone is making a mint on that box.
- ceejayoz 11y ago> I'm not in the industry (I'm in higher education), but this is news to me. They were hacked, badly, and tried pretty hard to pass it off as "no big deal" for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756 https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/ https://blog.linode.com/2013/04/16/security-incident-update/
- copperx 11y agoOh, I do remember that, and I was a client at the time and that's why I switched to Digital Ocean. I was wondering about technical limitations.