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Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase
- Dirt_McGirt 16y agoWell, there went my 191 day uptime. Which is incidentally the number of days ago they opened their London datacentre.
- rimantas 16y agoSame here. It was 400+ before moving to London DC from the one in US.
- whyenot 16y agoOne thing I personally like about Linode is that they continue to contribute code, sponsor conferences, and otherwise support the open source community. Of course there is a certain amount of self interest involved, but not every VPS hosting company gives back like this.
- kellishaver 16y agoI first found out about Linode by participating in Rails Rumble, which they were providing hosting for, and switched to them from Slicehost after last year's competition. They offered 3mo free to any competitors who wanted to sign up. I sent in a support ticket and it was dealt with in literally 15 minutes. I've been extremely happy with them ever since.
- askedrelic 16y agoI believe I am going to switch from Slicehost now. Anyone have a referral code they would want to me use?
- woogley 16y agohttp://www.linode.com/?r=200d6bb341711532c638b475e536b0205ce17f63 http://www.linode.com/?r=200d6bb341711532c638b475e536b0205ce... Please and thank you.
- Daevien 16y agoVery nice, just more proof that linode rules :)
- trevorturk 16y agoI've been a happy Slicehost customer for a long time, but I've heard good things about Linode and liked using them well enough during Rails Rumble... This price difference is pretty tempting. Does anyone that's made the switch from Slicehost to Linode care to tell us about their experience?
- dcreemer 16y agoNot much to tell -- I switched because of price, and have been very happy. Good support, good community, nice docs (e.g. for things like upgrading OS images).
- akadien 16y agoI did. Honestly, there was not much of a difference in service for me. Both services are top-notch.
- davidw 16y agoI wrote a fairly well-received article about my switch. Since I switched, I have been happy with Linode.
- siculars 16y agoBoth Slicehost and Linode have top notch service. I switched because of price/ram and 32bit support. I found that the overhead on a 64bit machine on low ram instances is just not worth it for the kind of stuff I'm doing now.
- bigsassy 16y agoWow, that's really great. Makes me feel better about the outages we've been dealing with at the Dallas center. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1392700 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1392700
- bbatsell 16y agoYeah, they've really been annoying, but other than those, I have nothing but wonderful things to say about Linode.
- bigsassy 16y agoAgreed. I was a very satisfied customer before this announcement, and I remain so afterwards.
- jread 16y agoLinode has 5 data centers. I've maintained a node in each of them the past six months with the following results: Dallas: 99.959% Newark: 99.971% London: 99.986% Fremont: 99.992% Atlanta: 100% I've heard from others here that Atlanta has been a very reliable LN data center for them as well.
- astrodust 16y agoDo you have any metrics for this? I have found issues with all the data-centers. NJ seems the most problematic from experience, followed closely by Dallas, which your data does confirm.
- jread 16y agohttp://uptime.cloudharmony.com http://uptime.cloudharmony.com If you click on any of the Linode links, you can see when outages occurred, how long they were, and usually an explanation of the outage (if Linode provided one to me)
- melvin 16y agoYeah, I'm glad they have the linode.typepad.com status blog - when Dallas is down, I can't connect to members.linode.com or status.linode.com to see what is going on! I know DOS attacks aren't their fault, but we've had a few more interruptions recently compared to usual.
- imp 16y agoWow, a lot cheaper than Slicehost now. $20/month gets you 256 MB on Slicehost and 512 MB on Linode.
- jwr 16y ago$15.20/month gets you 512MB on fivebean.com. I've been quite happy with them so far.
- spicyj 16y agoAnd $12 gets you 512MB on http://prgmr.com/ http://prgmr.com/.
- axod 16y agoThe transfer is a bit poor on prgmr though. $20 gets you 160GiB vs 200 on Linode. Also overage charges on Linode are pretty cheap (half what they are on slicehost). Depends if you need ram/disk/transfer though.
- tszming 16y agoThe point is Linode has better service, e.g. 24x7 IRC, responsive ticket system, powerful admin interface.
- lsc 16y agoThis is true; But good support is a difficult (and thus expensive) problem; I'm providing a alternative where if you are willing to have slower ticket resolution, you get a discount.
- carbon8 16y agoInteresting. Lots of disk space and bandwidth, too. Looks like their acceptable use policy is a bit strict and baroque, tough. I'm also guessing the admin interface doesn't give nearly as much control as linode's (no other VPS providers I'm familiar with do).
- adamilardi 16y agoGood job!
- listic 16y agoHow much is the extra traffic, again? 200GB of traffic included seemed good at the time, but it doesn't already. I'm seeing (and using) more offers lately that have much more traffic included.
- zefhous 16y agoThey aren't very draconian about overages — they won't shut you down if you go over. $0.10/GB if purchased in advance, $0.15 retrospectively. Also, if you have multiple linodes your bandwidth is pooled. http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#what-if-i-go-over-my-monthly-network-data-transfer http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm#what-if-i-go-over-my-monthly-n...
- paolomaffei 16y agoUnless you use it as a file server that's not too little actually
- melvin 16y agoTheir traffic allotment is fairly generous compared to comparable services. Sure, if you compare it to something like 1and1 with 'unlimited' for $12, maybe not, but you don't get the same control and reliability for something like that. If you compare it to how much it would cost to serve the same requests on Amazon S3, it's much cheaper.
- mitchellh 16y agoAnd the tumbleweeds continue to roll across SliceHost... which is stuck in 2008.
- listic 16y agoPrice isn't everything.
- davidw 16y agoIt's true that price isn't everything, and to some degree, web hosting is a funny market: it's really easy/visible to compete on price/features, but you only notice the service when things go awry (at least for someone like me who doesn't particularly need hand holding), and then you really want to be dealing with people who know their stuff and take their jobs seriously. That said, I've never got the impression Linode was giving me anything less in terms of service than similar outfits.
- btmorex 16y agoThat's true. On the other hand, Linode is competitive on price and service. Every ticket I've submitted has gotten a response within a couple hours. That's pretty good considering how much I'm paying. Honestly, I don't know why someone would get a vps from a different company.
- cookiecaper 16y agoI haven't checked for a while, but when I compared Slicehost and Linode pricing, they were about the same. I stayed on Slicehost for that reason. Slicehost has been great to me, and I like their IRC channel. I see no reason to switch. I guess I'll go compare again soon and if there's a big difference I'll be obliged to switch (very poor), but I haven't had any trouble with Slicehost.
- barmstrong 16y agoWith this new change - SliceHost is now about TWICE as expensive.
- lr 16y agoMy sole reason for picking Linode for hosting was RAM, as there was no one else out there who matched the RAM for the price. And now, WOW, I am a very happy customer. Thank You, Linode!!!
- jonknee 16y agoThis may be the final kick in the pants to switch over from Slicehost.
- markmywords 16y agoTime to move my last few servers from Slicehost to Linode.
- teilo 16y agoI switched from Webfaction to Linode about six months ago, because the WF server I was on kept experiencing hard drive failures leading to an unacceptable amount of downtime. Once is tolerable, but they should have replaced the drive then. They didn't, and two months later it failed again. Again they tried to repair the filesystem. It failed two days later again. When I challenged them on this, they admitted they knew the drive was bad, and that it had no redundancy (seriously?!!!), but blamed the guys managing the hardware (which is evidently NOT Webfaction). Not to mention a ridiculously slow control panel at random times. Linode has been a dream-come-true. I pay only a few bucks more a month than I did for my Tier-4 plan at Webfaction. Plus, I'm back to managing my own server and no longer have to deal with all the Apache port-forwarding weirdness, local profile software installs, etc. I've used other VPS hosting companies in the past, but Linode blows them all out of the water. Their VPS infrastructure is very well engineered, and fast. Nobody can touch their price/performance ratio. EDIT: BTW - I am excluding OpenVZ-based VPS's which come with a number of issues that I don't care to deal with.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoInteresting experience. I've got three or four sites on Webfaction. So far, ssh on a shared server plus the admin panel has been a sweet spot for me between configurability and not having to manage my own server. However, I've noticed an increase in downtime periods over the past few months and I'm starting to have concerns about the reliability of the service.
- petercooper 16y agoNobody can touch their price/performance ratio. I don't know about nobody, but it seems very good. I downsized one of my machines from a dedicated server at Softlayer costing $234 a month to a ~$40 a month Linode and.. it's doing fine! (Though it's not like I was maxing out the dedi.) I now have several Linodes, a couple in London, all the rest in Atlanta (which, by my research, seems to be the best US data center for them). Disclaimer: Linode advertise on my Web site now, but I pay for my hosting and chose them independently - no deals :-)
- donw 16y agoSame here; Linode has one my heart for three very important reasons, that will mean a lot to anybody looking for small-scale hosting: 1. Proper provisioning. They aren't the cheapest option in the market, but they actually provide what you're paying for. I've never had CPU, disk, or memory contention issues on my Linode because they packed too many instances on a host. 2. Great peering. Their network guys know what they're doing, and it shows in the low latency I've seen on my server hosted there, even coming from Japan. 3. Great staff. I wanted to set up my DNS with a wildcard MX record for subdomains, so that I could route mail without having to manually add MX records for every new account. The RFC for DNS allows this, but the Linode DNS management interface didn't... until I contacted them and asked for it. Initially, they gave the 'sorry, but we don't support that' line, but after I pointed out the relevant bit in the RFC, the feature was added within two days. I have never had a hosting provider respond like that.
- megamark16 16y agoHere's a google cache of their homepage before, for quick comparison to what's up now, for anyone like me who didn't have their old prices memorized: New prices: http://www.linode.com http://www.linode.com Old prices: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kVmwiN52X3gJ:www.linode.com/+http://www.linode.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kVmwiN5...
- yurylifshits 16y agoI am with linode and pretty happy with the experience
- hack_edu 16y agoLinode is still second to Chunkhost in terms of value at the low-end, free-beta and beta tester discounts aside. Chunkhost has had 512mb for a year now, and still offers 20% more disk space. In my experience Linode's network speeds to be much less consistent and, at their peaks, considerably slower. Yes, all this probably change when Chunkhost goes stable.
- carbon8 16y agoI like chunkhost and have a vps there, but the admin interface is still incredibly rudimentary. You can't really do anything other than reboot, create, destroy and reimage. Still, I'm a happy chunkhost customer, I think they have great potential and recommend them to anyone who is looking for a simple, cheap VPS.
- barredo 16y agoI have a question about VPS, hope someone could help and not be much offtopic: I have a dedicated server (in Softlayer) with Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3220 @ 2.40GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB (which I only use 5 or 6, so it's not an issue) and 2000Gb transfer. Price is 189$ a month. Is it worth to switch to Linode's 4GB ram plan? I was thinking in getting a new server in softlayer with 12-16GB ram. tl;dr: is it worth switching from a dedicated to a vps with similar specs?
- pavs 16y agoDepends on how process hungry your server is, if you constantly maximizing quad core xeon server, then its not a direct comparison in processing. But if you are using processing speed of a dual core, then I think you should move. They might give you four "virtual cores" but its not a direct comparison to a xeon server. In everything else, memory space and transfer, you are better off moving.
- paolomaffei 16y agoat $30 per month you'll get $360/year from switching, is that more or less the cost of the time to switch? a part from this, linode service and facilities (such as instant backup and restore) are great, don't know about softlayer's
- tbrownaw 16y agoThat depends on what % of your cpu you're using, and how sensitive you are to disk bandwidth. Look at what fraction of the host machine you get ("How many Linodes share a host", http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm http://www.linode.com/faq.cfm ), do you use more than that fraction of the resources that would be shared (disk I/O, CPU time)? How much is having a nice web interface for rebooting and such worth?
- jules 16y ago> Linodes of the same plan are grouped together onto a host. We adjust the number of slots on each host according to its resources and hardware specification. On average, a Linode 512 host has 40 Linodes on it. A Linode 768 host has on average 30. Linode 1024 host: 20 Linodes; Linode 1536 host: 15; Linode 2048 host: 10; Linode 4096: 5. Does this mean that a 512 host has 40*512MB = 20GB of physical RAM? If it is less than that, then where does the 512 figure come from?
- mahmud 16y agoMy favorite just got favoriter.
- gaiusparx 16y agoThank you! I am a happy customer.
- dubs 16y agoEnough is enough. Moving to Linode tonight.
- pdx 16y agoI was on Slicehost, and I really struggled with whether to change to Linode. It's not that I was having any problems with Slicehost. I loved it. I just kept looking at that extra RAM on Linode, and all those data centers. When they got the UK data center, that clinched it. I had been hoping to someday expand to UK, so when Linode did that, I changed over that day.
- jules 16y agoA stupid question: why are the bigger linodes relatively more expensive? You get 512MB for $19.95 and 1024MB for $39.95. If you buy 2x512MB, don't you get twice as much CPU too?
- kijinbear 16y agoLinode is pretty much a pay-per-use service in the guise of a VPS host. You use twice as much resources, you pay twice as much. You stop using your VPS for a day, your account is credited back for that day. Overage charges are very similar to regular charges. And so on.
- jules 16y agoSo you can compute roughly the same number of digits of pi on 2x512 machines as on one 1024 machine? i.e. you get the same number of execution threads/cycles?
- kijinbear 16y agoNo, CPU seems to be an exception. Even on the smallest plan, you can often burst all the way to 400% (4 cores). So it depends on what other customers are doing, and if everyone else were idle, you'd get the same CPU in both plans. But the host machine is at least an 8-core beast, so one person bursting to 400% doesn't affect other customers as much as it would in other hosting platforms. Also, the main bottleneck in a VPS setup is RAM and I/O. Personally, I've never had a CPU shortage in the two years I've been with Linode ;)
- jules 16y agoHmm, so I should run my combinatorial search algorithms on 512 Linodes, although perhaps they wouldn't like that ;)
- tbrownaw 16y agoTheir FAQ has a section on how many instances are on each host, which is 40 for 0.5GB and 20 for 1GB etc (ie, 20GB of customer instances per host, regardless of instance size). Which would mean that when you go for twice as much ram, you also get twice as much of everything else. The front page lists disk space and bandwidth, and these also scale linearly with ram size.
- xinsight 16y agoIn terms of iPhone apps, linode easily beats slicehost. Nice graphs for CPU, network, etc. And last i looked, slicehost required you to make a URL with you API key and mail it to yourself, which is a huge PITA.
- Greenisus 16y agoI wrote the Slicehost app. Would love to add graphs, but that data's not available yet in the API. As for the email link, that's because the app came out before the iPhone had a copy/paste feature. You don't need that anymore with copy/paste.
- xinsight 16y agoCut/paste that string is still quite fiddly. Do you know why slicehost doesn't just make their private API key a link in the slice manager? I'm also curious what extra level of security the API key buys. If I lose my phone people can still mess with my slices. I thought the iphone app was a slicehost product - but are you saying you just developed the app as a customer? That's mighty generous...
- melvin 16y agoI was thinking '720 to 768? That's not such a big deal...' until I actually read the chart. That's great! My 720 just went to a 1024. Thanks, Linode!
- mkramlich 16y agogotta love bday parties where the guests get the presents instead -- happy Linode customer
- steve19 16y agoGoodbye Slicehost
- mr_luc 16y agoThis is a coincidence. I had a funny experience with Linode just today! I´ve been in South America for a few months, and I found out that my bank card (visa) expired a little over a month ago. "Hmm," I thought. "I sure hope that my linode is all right. But it´s been less than two months. They will turn it off, but that is all." So I checked my email. Part of the joy of my style of travelling is not checking email for a month at a stretch. They deleted my linode. It´s completely gone. I feel a little sick ... it was just for personal use (for now), and I have all of the git repos on my local machine as well, but I´m not yet to the point where everything I do on the server is in a repo somewhere. Poof, hundreds of hours of server mangling, gone forever. Literally, if you forget to check your email, they delete it in 20 days. If your bank card expires while you´re out of touch ... for some strange reason ... anyway, instead of warehousing your data for even a few months, they kill you. I like linode. I just feel sick right now. On the one hand, I´m an idiot. On the other hand, 20 days?!?!?! When you know how precious a customers´data is in this context, and it´s purely a question of temporary storage, why?!? I need a drink. Oh, yeah, Go Linode! edit: okay, I´m over it now. Leaving the original, melodramatic writing because, darn it linode, someone from Slicehost posted that Slicehost did it differently, and my reaction is relevant to your business.
- bbatsell 16y agoFor the record: The Planet will cut your server, wipe it, and reassign after 5 days of non-payment. That's standard operating procedure at every server host I've ever used. I'm honestly surprised that Linode gives you 20 days; that's very generous in my experience.
- weaksauce 16y agoThey didn't give him 20 days. He checked it after 20 days. Who knows the grace period for an expired card? I think that deleting the data is a bit harsh for a late payment. How many accounts really get to that point of late payment to where it would be costly for the company to just shut off access to the data until the plan is paid for. A customer oriented policy would be having a grace period of 3 months where the data is still there but they don't delete it. That's good customer service in the exceptional case of late payment/expired card.
- spicyj 16y agoI wish they would offer a "Linode 256" VPS for $10 a month, but I doubt that they will. Guess that would make them look cheap, which they're trying to avoid.
- joeyh 16y agoMe too.. I'd be happy with 128 mb at my current level of use. But I suspect they might lose money at that price point.
- lsc 16y agounless their costs are radically different from mine, (and if anything, their automation is better, so their costs should be lower) the small instances are quite profitable.
- spicyj 16y ago(None of this takes into account semiyearly/yearly pricing discounts.) The difference is that they sell their boxes with prices proportional to memory so that doubling resources costs double (25.6MB RAM per dollar), whereas at prgmr, you charge a flat $4-per-guest fee and then charge linearly for space on top of that (64 MB per dollar). Bonus fact: If you both were to offer a 173 MB size, the costs would be almost the same (~$6.70/mo).
- lsc 16y agoIt's funny, because my choice of pricing with my current support costs, and the fact that nearly all my advertising is fixed-cost 'brand building' vs. per-customer cost referrals or click ads, actually makes the smaller domains /much/ more profitable than the larger domains, which yes, probably means I've mispriced something. But the smaller domains do have a much larger 'margin for error' - if I sell a block of them to spammers, or to people expecting a full-time sysadmin, they can get expensive fast.
- artiom 16y agoNot 10$ but 10euro, hosted in Netherlands. (aff link) http://www.xeneurope.co.uk/clients/aff.php?aff=026 http://www.xeneurope.co.uk/clients/aff.php?aff=026
- natfriedman 16y agoLinode has been fabulous, and this is great news. But I've never understood why their storage pricing is so high: Additional 1 GB Disk Space - (add $2.00/mo) Additional 2 GB Disk Space - (add $4.00/mo) Additional 3 GB Disk Space - (add $6.00/mo) Additional 4 GB Disk Space - (add $8.00/mo) Additional 5 GB Disk Space - (add $10.00/mo) Additional 6 GB Disk Space - (add $12.00/mo) About 20 times higher than Amazon EBS.
- truebosko 16y agoSwitched from Slicehost to Linode for my own VPS and haven't looked back. Reliable, speedy, better pricing, and an awesome control panel.