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Linode giving $100 credit to first 1,000 new customers to sign up this Friday
- jh3 16y agoGreat, now I might signup for a Linode account.
- duck 16y agoI missed the AppSumo deal and have been wanting to switch over from Slicehost so Friday seems like a great day to do that.
- ebtalley 16y agoOhohohohoh merry Christmas to me. I am so jumping on that, luckily its my company that bought the existing accounts. 44:40:01, 44:40:00, 44:39:59
- asb 16y agoI imagine this is prompted by Amazon's free usage tier. I hope it's successful for Linode, though with the AppSumo credit and now this I can't help but feel a little envious of the new users.
- blhack 16y agoNo reason not to :). I got in on the free amazon AWS and use the machine as a dev server.
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- mike4u2 16y agoI am not sure why you need a sign up script, but you can make one with the iMacros Firefox extension in minutes: http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/ http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/
- jrockway 16y agoDoes anyone know how Linode's latency from Chicago compares to Slicehost (which is 20ms round-trip for me)? At work, I'm stuck with servers that are 100ms+ away, and they are unusable over ssh with that latency. I'm willing to switch to Linode, but only if I get box-under-my-desk-like speed :)
- blhack 16y agoForgive me for being kindof ignorant here, but wouldn't this be pretty heavily dependent on your connection? If you're close (logically, as in network hops) to their datacenter? Here: http://www.linode.com/avail/ http://www.linode.com/avail/ That's a list of their systems. If you want to test the latency, ping one of them. For instance I'm on qwest's network in Phoenix, AZ. My ping time to dallas1.linode.com is 40-45ms. atlanta1.linode.com is 85-100 They're named by city...dallas1.linode.com fremont1.linode.com atlanta1.linode.com etc. etc.
- asb 16y agoPing their datacenters: http://www.linode.com/speedtest/ http://www.linode.com/speedtest/
- ramidarigaz 16y agoDenver to Dallas is averaging 28ms. Plenty fast for me :) Pick the closest data center.
- te_chris 16y agodude I tunnel into their cali DC and work over ssh from Dunedin, New Zealand and it's fine. That's a distance of 11,500km. Latency may not be your biggest problem
- Kurtz79 16y agoIs it me or putting the figure "100,000", is meant for people to mistake it for "100.000"? But, if I'm not mistaken, there is nothing like it in reality, it should really be "100,00" unless the Fed are planning to introduce new currency that is 1/10 of a cent...
- jluxenberg 16y agoIn the states, "$100,000" is one hundred thousand dollars. They are giving away $100 x 1000 = $100,000.
- Kurtz79 16y agoOh, my bad, I thought the figure meant $100,000 (interpreted as 100 dollars + 000 cents) each customer.
- taylorbuley 16y agoThey have Linodes in the UK. Honest mistake :)
- ashleyw 16y agoThe "100,000.00" format is also used in the UK.
- ericwaller 16y agoNope, they really mean $100,000: 1000 customers * $100
- Kurtz79 16y agoYep, got it now.
- dbingham 16y agoWhat if I already have a linode? What do I get :p
- FluidDjango 16y agoSome great new (HN) neighbors?
- lwhi 16y agoIt scares me when they come out with great deals like this. Will there be a tipping point, when Linode cease to be great because they're overstretched?
- blhack 16y agoI doubt it. My guess is that they have a usage-per-server stat and don't go over that. For example, 10 VPSs per physical server, no more. If we're going to up 1000 new VPS, we're going to need 100 new physical servers.
- sparky 16y agoGP may have meant "great" in terms of support; that's one of the most often-cited benefits of Linode over other providers. They appear to give a crap about their customers and are very responsive over several open communication channels (forums, IRC, etc.). That may or may not scale if they were to someday have 100x the customers.
- percept 16y agoCustomer acquisition cost: $100 sounds like a good target for a VPS service.
- RBr 16y agoDeals like this are a double edged sword. They really are great for people who have been sitting on the fence. But new customers who recently signed up... those new customers all feel shunned and wish that they had of waited.
- dholowiski 16y agoAgreed, but maybe they'll make it up with a nice new year's present, like they did last year (ram increase)? Yes, definitely a double edged sword.
- StavrosK 16y agoOr old customers who've been with them for years... You can't please everyone, I guess.
- Xuzz 16y agoI just signed up Sunday. I feel betrayed :(. Maybe I can just cancel my account and move somewhere else that has a new-customer deal for the holidays.
- jodrellblank 16y ago"I got exactly what I agreed to. I feel betrayed!"
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- sjtgraham 16y agoLocal time for me is GMT. Looks like I won't have to be the early bird to catch this worm. Nice.
- Robin_Message 16y agoHuh, so I was going to ask today whether Linode or EC2 made sense for running a personal server. Thanks Linode, you hopefully just made my choice easier!
- ekidd 16y agoAs somebody with a Linode and an EC2 account, here are some other things to consider: - Linode's DNS manager is pretty decent, and I've historically used it for both Linode and EC2 machines. - EC2 t1.micro instances are frustratingly underpowered if you have a CPU spike, and they may "freeze" for as much as a second at time. I'm not convinced that Amazon is price/performance competitive at the very low end. - EC2's ability to back up volumes to S3 is very handy. - EC2's ability to spin a new system up alongside your old one, transfer the old IP address to the new system, and then spin down your old system is great. So if what you want is a low-end Linux box that's online 24 hours a day, Linode can be an excellent choice. And a $100 credit will go a fairly long way.
- caker 16y agoFWIW, one can swap/move IPs between Linodes within the same facility, too.
- tianyicui 16y agoThe world clock for non-US HNers: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=17&month=12&year=2010&hour=9&min=0&sec=0&p1=179 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=17&...
- lwhi 16y agoThis is pretty clever. They're going to get more than 1000 people signing up. The order of magnitude above 1000 people will probably more than make up for the $100,000 they stand to lose. Extending this idea, if I was the person involved with this deal, I'd also include current customers. If they allowed this, the order of magnitude of new sign-ups (above 1000) would only be increased. People who sign up for a second Linode are worth just as much as people signing up for their first Linode - there's potentially less risk, because current customers already have an established relationship with Linode, and are most likely to continue using their services once the credit has been spent.
- citricsquid 16y agoI think they're more hedging their bets on customers using the service for a few months and replacing their current (if they have it) host with Linode and once their credit runs out being so invested in Linode as a service -- realising it rocks and having their stuff all there -- they won't have a reason to move and if they choose to it'll be a pain to do so.
- lwhi 16y agoTrue, but if they extended the deal to current customers they'd still have the same outlay ($100,000) but the buzz + new signups would be increased. I suppose it could be argued that current customers are more likely to sign-up for a second linode independently from any offer; but in counter to that, some current customers might be dissuaded from signing up for a second linode in the near future because the perceived value proposition has been lessened. I think allowing current customers to sign up for a 2nd linode would be a win-win for Linode (and people like me who currently use them).
- dholowiski 16y agoIt's not even costing them $100,000 to do this. What does $100 of service cost linode- probably very little. That's about 4 months worth of the basic hosting plan, which is 1/40 of a server (so their FAQ says). The cost to linode for this promotion is probably much lower. This doubly makes me wish they offered this to existing customers buying new nodes, however it's extremely similar to the Amazon deal a few weeks back.
- paraschopra 16y agoLinode hasn't been best lately. They suffered far too many outages and network issues (especially Fremont data center). We have been seriously considering moving to a dedicated setup because of network issues. (Also the fact that they are inflexible -- we want RAM but not hard disk capacity; they can't help us).
- steven_h 16y agoYou can add additional RAM in the Extras menu on your Linode. It's expensive and it only lets me add like 300 MB more Ram to a 1GB Linode but they aren't completely inflexible.
- wwortiz 16y agoThe ram additional prices are linear with the next tier linode, so if you want more ram you are better of just buying the next tier and getting bandwidth/harddrive space for free. This applies to all their extra pricing (other than ips and backups). I'm upset with the outages but I'm more likely to move my freemont server back to dallas than switch hosts.
- steven_h 16y agoAtlanta has been rock solid for me the last month, before that I was getting some lag in my SSH but that's about it.
- dotBen 16y agoHurricane Electric 1 in Fremont is, IMHO, a notoriously bad DC - I wouldn't host anything in there regardless of whether it was with Linode (I'm a fan) or another provider. If Fremont was a random choice of the 4 US DC's Linode offers, I would consider putting in a ticket to be moved to another one of their DCs (they'll do it painlessly for free).
- cmelbye 16y agoAlso, isn't it completely filled to capacity? I think they're unable to refill Linodes there very often due to some reason like that.
- stilldavid 16y agoAlmost 100% identical to what SparkFun did a year ago: http://sprkfn.com/n305 http://sprkfn.com/n305
- jedsmith 16y agoWithout shipping charges!
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- duck 16y agohttp://www.linode.com/avail/ http://www.linode.com/avail/ According to this they are going to be 121 nodes short. I'm sure they are working on that as I write this though.
- jedsmith 16y agoAsked and answered: http://blog.linode.com/2010/12/15/linode-100000-giveaway/#comment-81663 http://blog.linode.com/2010/12/15/linode-100000-giveaway/#co...
- mdolon 16y agoIf anyone has any hesitation about switching to Linode, I've been using them for the past 2 years and have had an exceptional experience. This is after using both Slicehost and Media Temple - Linode has been the most reliable for me so far, in terms of both performance and speed/latency. Their control panel is also pretty sweet, I'm not sure if you can see a demo from the main site but if anyone wants, I can post a couple of screenshots.
- albahk 16y agoScreen shots would be nice - I've been thinking of moving over from Mediatemple DV but do not really want to spend too much time configuring a server from the command line. edit: screenshots on the linode site http://www.linode.com/features.cfm http://www.linode.com/features.cfm
- mt_Sara 16y agoSorry to read you're thinking of leaving us! Have you been unhappy with your (mt) service? If there's anything we can do to help, please let us know by calling or messaging us on Twitter (@meditatemple). We'd be happy to hear some feedback or offer some support/advice.
- woogley 16y agoI've been using Linode for over a year, and I have to say they really are the best when it comes to VPS. The distribution choices are great, the emergency AJAX shell is great, and everything (in my experience) is automated to the point where I haven't even logged a support ticket yet. If you'd like to ask more about my experience, please do so. In return, I'd like to shamelessly ask you use my referral link when you sign up: http://www.linode.com/?r=200d6bb341711532c638b475e536b0205ce17f63 http://www.linode.com/?r=200d6bb341711532c638b475e536b0205ce... I could always use another free month!
- eduardo_f 16y agoI love Linode, but I don't get anywhere close the type of bandwidth I get with 100tb.com. Can you recommend other high-bandwidth hosts?
- akent 16y ago$200/month is their cheapest plan? Not really in the same league as Linode then.
- msluyter 16y agoI take it a lot of people are going to be sitting with their mouse poised over the submit button as 9am rolls around, and if you're lucky, you'll get the 100$? Surely there's a better way to handle this; it's sort of an annoying gamble, imho.
- purephase 16y agoDagnabbit. I just signed up this morning. That being said, their services are pretty slick.