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Linode turns 8; Disk space +25%
- trustfundbaby 15y agoThis is why I love Linode ... they do stuff like this, once a year or so and its so fantastic ... they upgraded me from a 328MB linode to 512MB last year for free ... now this ... I wish more companies would follow suit. It inspires loyalty in very subtle ways ... I was going to get a 512MB linode anyway, but with the money I saved, I added their backup service for $4.95 a month ... I couldn't imagine going anywhere else for my vps hosting. However, my apartment complex has jacked up my rent on me, even though I've lived there and paid my rent on time for 4 years now.
- cosgroveb 15y agoIt's not like you have a fixed-rate mortgage on that apartment. You don't expect your landlord to let you rent at below-market rates do you? I guess what I'm saying is if you want to lock in a low rent you need to negotiate for a longer lease.
- trustfundbaby 15y agoLinode has never reduced how much I pay for my vps either, so I don't understand where you get the idea that I'm angling for them to lower my rent. All I'm saying is that some token of appreciation would be great and lock in my loyalty. I pay for a garage ... a free month of that maybe?
- cosgroveb 15y agoYou were complaining about them raising your rent (not about them not throwing in things to please). The cost of everything goes up over time. Get over it. Also your rent over the last four years was lowered by a little thing called inflation.
- trustfundbaby 15y agoThe cost of everything goes up over time. -------------------------- Except server costs and bandwidth, apparently ;)
- mey 15y agoOr house prices (oh wait that has direct relevance to rental unit costs)
- yummyfajitas 15y agoRental prices didn't go up much during the bubble, and they are not coming down much while it is bursting. No reason they should - after all, price to buy incorporates the speculative value of a house while price to rent does not.
- seabee 15y agoThe cost of disk space and memory decreases over time as technology progresses. Property cost usually does not. Certain building materials do not (sometimes it gets more expensive). Labour certainly doesn't. If you're going to compare apples to oranges, you can't start complaining that apples should have more vitamin C. Linode can afford to give away these loyalty bonuses. Your landlord probably can't.
- code_duck 15y agoI'm certainly happy with how pricing has gone there: start out half the price of slicehost, then add RAM and disk space every 6 months! It's a competitive industry, though. I could see how price of a given allocation of computer resources tends to go down, like we're used to seeing with hardware.
- yatsyk 15y agohappy birthday from satisfied customer!
- yuxt 15y agothank you Linode, and happy birthday
- ajross 15y agoI like Linode and use them. But 25% is almost an insult. Storage is absurdly expensive at Linode: literally 10x what Amazon charges for EBS stores (a little less, as Linode storage is local and there are no usage charges). I really wish they were more competitive. Right now I have a tiny instance running my personal email, but everything else I do looks more attractive on EC2 or Rackspace.
- eli 15y agoIsn't Rackspace Cloud more expensive? Or are you just talking about storage? I think for many people, RAM and CPU become an issue long before disk space.
- zedpm 15y agoUnlike Linode, Rackspace Cloud decouples the server pricing from the bandwidth pricing. A base server on Rackspace is cheap and it remains so if you use very little bandwidth. If you calculate the Rackspace cost using the maximum bandwidth bundled with a comparable Linode VPS then Rackspace is indeed more expensive.
- eli 15y agoUh, I think one of us is confused. A base server on Rackspace Cloud is already more expensive than a comparable Linode VPS, even before you factor in bandwidth charges. 1GB Rackspace Cloud is $43.80/mo plus bandwidth. 1GB Linode is $40/mo and it comes with 400GB transfer. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server... http://www.linode.com/index.cfm http://www.linode.com/index.cfm
- zedpm 15y agoYes, it appears I was using Slicehost prices rather than Linode prices because I'm in the process of migrating from Slicehost to Linode. I did the Slicehost to Cloud Server comparison because Slicehost is forcing migration to Rackspace in the next few months. A 1GB Slice is $70 vs. the $43 for a 1GB Cloud Server. Sorry for the confusion.
- CoffeeDregs 15y agoI've been using Linode for about 4 years now for dev and [small] production servers. They're such a joy to use. I agree that I could probably get VPSs cheaper somewhere else, but ... meh. And, though I rarely need support, Linode's support is second to none and it's a real help with something's going wrong. More than anything, I'm happy to pay a bit extra to support quality products and services. So, joining the chorus: happy birthday!
- thaumaturgy 15y ago> I agree that I could probably get VPSs cheaper somewhere else... A couple of people have brought this up in this thread, and all I can think each time is that they must not place any value on their time or hassle when it comes to dealing with the cheaper providers.
- mestudent 15y agoIt depends on what your using the vps for, I have a vps with prgmr and it really isn't that much of a hassle, even starting fresh with debian is a 5 minute or less process with the centos recovery.
- citricsquid 15y agoI absolutely love Linode. I made the HORRIBLE mistake of using vps.net for over a year (from September 09 to September 10) and it was honestly the worst hosting experience of my life (and I keep an eye on them, still as bad as ever) so when I switched to Linode I was expecting more of the same, in over 8 months I have never had a problem, I've submitted 1 support ticket and that was because I needed help enabling backups (the host machine was disallowing it) and that was resolved in 5 minutes. Linodes pricing isn't the cheapest but it's well worth it. I have 6 servers with them at the moment.
- cosgroveb 15y agoThey were super helpful with an iptables question I had (I locked myself out of the server as well as took down several services I had running). I honestly expected them to say "you signed up for a VPS you should know this... it's not covered by our support."
- code_duck 15y agoWhen I asked Linode support my 1 question ever in 2 years of business, the person really outdid himself in contacting me - followup, additional tips, checkups, etc. Really nice. For the iptables issue, did you try connecting to the server from lish? Same as with slicehost, when you're locked out the Ajax console can provide you with a shell on your server. Linode has lish too, though, which is an SSH connection to your server's host system. Connecting through there bypasses your iptables setup.
- dragonquest 15y agoCongrats to Linode, 8 years that's a long time. Which makes me wonder, was Linode the earliest or one of the earliest VPS hosting provider? I'm guessing in 2002 it wasn't that mature a market or was there already a few big players hovering about by the time Linode stepped in?
- brlewis 15y agoYes, at least one of the earliest. It's much older than slicehost. When I signed up for them some years ago, there weren't alternatives.
- codelust 15y agoThey were one of the earlier ones, but not the earliest. If my memory serves me right, a VPS as a viable option first gained publicity with Johncompanies.com, who were one of the early sponsors on kuro5hin.org following the famous DOS-attack on it. From the domain name registration it would appear that Johncompanies have been around since 2001, while linode.com was registered in 2003.
- jules 15y agoWhy are bigger linodes relatively more expensive?
- tnorthcutt 15y agoExcept for the fact that the amount of transfer doesn't keep increasing past 2000GB after the 8GB plan, they're not. (If that's what you were referring to, my apologies)
- jules 15y agoThere's that, and that 19.95*2 = 39.90. Sure, it's not much more expensive, but why is one 1024 linode not cheaper than two 512 ones? Surely there is some overhead in running 2 instances on one piece of hardware instead of one. Also, do you get CPU proportional to the RAM? That is, if I get two 512 linodes do I get more or less CPU than with one 1024 linode?
- singlow 15y agoMy understanding is that the 1024 server will be on hardware shared by half as many VPSs as a 512. On both of them you get as much CPU as is available proportioned to each VPS. But with the 1024, you have half as many competitors for that CPU. You also have half as many competitors for IO. Disk space and Ram are the only things that are handed out in fixed quantities.
- jules 15y agoI see. In practice I'd expect the others on a node not to make full use of CPU, so you're getting more CPU for the same money on a 512 (unless they artificially limit it).
- keidian 15y agoThey don't limit it to any extent besides giving you access to 4 cores of the host instead of all of them
- paraschopra 15y agoCongrats on the anniversary. To provide a balanced perspective on this thread, let me share our experience. We (Visual Website Optimizer) are hosted on Linode since beginning but have experienced degradation of service lately particularly around network availability. There is at least one minor outage every month in their Newark data center (planning around network outage is much harder). While their support is responsive, these regular outages affect our business in a very significant manner. Every time we contact them, their staff just says these outages _happen_ and unavoidable and I cannot believe they are okay with it. Maybe it is to do with their increased customer base, but earlier these outages were much less frequent and we enjoyed the service. We own 25+ servers with them and have lately given thought of moving to some other provider. It's their responsive customer service and the pain of migrating everything that has kept us sticking to Linode.
- thaumaturgy 15y agoHuh. I have a number of our pre-launch hosting customers on a web server in the Newark center; I get a text message within a few seconds of an outage, and haven't received any notifications in quite a while (unless it was due to my own error). Maybe it's something on your particular rack or node? Have you tried setting up new Linodes in Newark and migrating to those?
- callmeed 15y agoIf you have 25+ servers, aren't some of them in other data centers and configured in some sort of high-availability setup? What's your technology stack? (FYI, I'm asking purely out of curiosity)
- paraschopra 15y agoWe have a backup set of servers at a different data center as well. But routing traffic via DNS change to different data center isn't the best approach as some ISPs cache DNS and would still send traffic to old data center. A solution to this would be to have a round robin DNS to different data centers but that is still plagued if one data center develops a network issue. The only real solution to this is BGP routing which is complicated to setup and VERY expensive (only big guys do it). Here's some excellent answers on SO: http://serverfault.com/questions/153576/global-high-availability-setup-question http://serverfault.com/questions/153576/global-high-availabi...
- samuarl 15y agoI'm extremely happy with my Linode VPS. Never had any problems and the performance seems great. Getting a VPS was my first real foray into Linux and I've learnt so much since I started by just messing around. The Linode library has also been a great source of help. I recommend anyone who likes to spend hours perfectly configuring services they will likely never use, because it's fun, should get one to hone their terminal chops.
- sixtofour 15y agoI would recommend the same thing for the same kind of people, but only after you do it on a virtual machine (VirtualBox) on your local machine. It's a much cheaper alternative (free), and you'll have a better idea what you want and what to do when you move to Linode.
- thaumaturgy 15y agoDisk space was the one thing that made Linode feel a bit cramped, for me. Yay! Thanks, Linode. Incidentally, for those looking for an easy way to free up a little extra disk space on your VPS, look into localepurge. On Debian, it's a piece-of-cake install, and it automatically removes unneeded language and locale files from packages every time you run apt.
- Macha 15y agoI'm using 2/16GB (2/20GB now I guess) on my Linode. RAM is always the pain point for me.
- code_duck 15y agoI'm so satisfied with Linode. You can't beat the prices and performance, in my experience. Thanks guys!
- swlkr 15y agolinode you continue to rock my socks
- dreamdu5t 15y agoI love you Linode! Best host ever.
- jusob 15y agoWell, my experience with Linode started well: good price, great interface, etc. Until somebody unrelated to me sent spam containing a URL pointing to one of my web sites. A recipient complained to Linode. Linode opened a ticket around 2am. At 6am, they simply shutdown my VPS becasue I didn't answer the ticket! I got the message a few hours later when I woke up. I f you want to take any website hosted on Linode down, you know what to do...
- damianzaremba 15y agoIf you don't want your Linode taken down, you know what to do. Reply to abuse tickets!
- tasaro 15y agoFor the record, we do allow more than 4 hours to respond to this form of abuse.
- keidian 15y agoI'm guessing there was more to this story than just a spam complaint OR they gave you more than 4 hours
- ww520 15y agoI have an account with Linode and loves their service; however, given the competition from AWS and AppEngine, I don't know whether I should stay. Light traffic static website can be run in AppEngine for free. AWS has some very competitive pricing for VPS. Linode's yearly $240 fee is less and less appealing.
- initself 15y agoWow! The timing couldn't be better! I was regularly hitting 98% and 99% full, having to purge files here and there. I was just about to increase my space.
- jimmyjim 15y agoHrmm, 25%? I purchased the Linode 512 package a while ago... and installed an Archlinux image and had it use 100% of the storage capacity. Now, Linode's manager is reporting that I have 80% full... (instead of 75%, as this post would have it)
- w01fe 15y agoIf you had x disk space before, now you have 1.25x. That means your current usage is x / 1.25x = 0.8.
- jimmyjim 15y agoYep, that was a math fail by me. I realized shortly after posting that - but not in time enough to remove the comment. Sorry.
- thelibrarian 15y agoNope - 80% is correct. 20 GB + 25% = 25 GB 20 GB / 25 GB = 80% used.
- nasmorn 15y agoWhat is so great about Linode that I would pay 3 times as much as on german hoster http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserver-produktmatrix http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produktmatrix_vserver/vserver-... Sure the website is in german, traffic is not unlimited but I have used them for more than a year now and service is totally fine. Edit: Prices include VAT, so the 1024 comes out to 15 USD without taxes, which is 12% more than a third, but still.
- deno 15y agoWebsite is available in English. You should have no problem communicating in English with their customer support, as well. Also, it's KVM based, in case anyone is wondering.