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I am a big fun of DO. Their performance is consistent and their support is simply awesome. However I do find myself using Linode lately as I get double the mem

I am a big fun of DO. Their performance is consistent and their support is simply awesome. However I do find myself using Linode lately as I get double the memory for the same price. I hope DO follow and increase the memory on their nodes.

tedivm 10y ago
I sent them a message saying exactly that- I've moved all my machines to linode because the price for the speed (both memory and cpu) is much better. They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price.
- Hexcles 10y ago
  > competing on platform, not price I believe it'd be more appropriate for Linode to say that, which has long had good reputation in terms of the variety of regions, the quality of network, etc., and which used to be on the more expensive end. DO, on the other hand, actually debuted with the low prices, if anyone remembers.
  - braveo 10y ago
    I would jump away from Linode in a heartbeat if I found something comparable. The article mentioned dataloss with Linode... I experienced the same problem. Well, technically the data was there, but there was a corruption problem and the disk was being mounted read-only. Their default settings for ext4 in their arch linux offerings was not 'data=journaled', and it should have been. Well... I say it should have been, but I found out why it wasn't their default when I went to rebuild that VPS. Apparently something in their infrastructure doesn't work well with ext4 journaling because everytime I tried to set it to journaled (so I could avoid a repeat of the corrupted disk issue...) it would reboot lmounted as readonly and there was no way to fix the issue except to rebuild. When I contacted them about it, they told me it was a "known issue" that would be fixed in the next 3-6 months. That was the SECOND issue I found with them, the first is that doing a 'pacman -Syu' on a completely fresh install would hose the install... again, something to do with their infrastructure not working well with arch linux. It took me days of fidding around and learning what I could, and could not do, before I was able to successfully rebuild that VPS. I would absolutely love to find another VPS provider that offered arch linux with comparable performance.
- d33 10y ago
  Hey, I did the same! Somehow, I don't believe them, though I have to say that their e-mail sounded quite assertive. I guess they'll change their mind when they lose enough profit.
- hueving 10y ago
  >They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price. A weird thing to say when most people I know who use them are doing it for the cheap price.
  - kartickv 10y ago
    Which doesn't mean that they should chase those customers. If they're not generating significant profit, it doesn't matter much whether they stay or leave.

tedivm 10y ago

I sent them a message saying exactly that- I've moved all my machines to linode because the price for the speed (both memory and cpu) is much better. They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price.

Hexcles 10y ago
> competing on platform, not price I believe it'd be more appropriate for Linode to say that, which has long had good reputation in terms of the variety of regions, the quality of network, etc., and which used to be on the more expensive end. DO, on the other hand, actually debuted with the low prices, if anyone remembers.
- braveo 10y ago
  I would jump away from Linode in a heartbeat if I found something comparable. The article mentioned dataloss with Linode... I experienced the same problem. Well, technically the data was there, but there was a corruption problem and the disk was being mounted read-only. Their default settings for ext4 in their arch linux offerings was not 'data=journaled', and it should have been. Well... I say it should have been, but I found out why it wasn't their default when I went to rebuild that VPS. Apparently something in their infrastructure doesn't work well with ext4 journaling because everytime I tried to set it to journaled (so I could avoid a repeat of the corrupted disk issue...) it would reboot lmounted as readonly and there was no way to fix the issue except to rebuild. When I contacted them about it, they told me it was a "known issue" that would be fixed in the next 3-6 months. That was the SECOND issue I found with them, the first is that doing a 'pacman -Syu' on a completely fresh install would hose the install... again, something to do with their infrastructure not working well with arch linux. It took me days of fidding around and learning what I could, and could not do, before I was able to successfully rebuild that VPS. I would absolutely love to find another VPS provider that offered arch linux with comparable performance.
d33 10y ago
Hey, I did the same! Somehow, I don't believe them, though I have to say that their e-mail sounded quite assertive. I guess they'll change their mind when they lose enough profit.
hueving 10y ago
>They responded back saying that they are competing on platform, not price. A weird thing to say when most people I know who use them are doing it for the cheap price.
- kartickv 10y ago
  Which doesn't mean that they should chase those customers. If they're not generating significant profit, it doesn't matter much whether they stay or leave.