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This 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 fr

This 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 ago
It'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 ago
  Linode 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 ago
    You 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 ago
      The cost of everything goes up over time. -------------------------- Except server costs and bandwidth, apparently ;)
      - mey 15y ago
        Or house prices (oh wait that has direct relevance to rental unit costs)
        yummyfajitas 15y ago
        Rental 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 ago
    The 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 ago
I'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.

cosgroveb 15y ago

It'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 ago
Linode 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 ago
  You 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 ago
    The cost of everything goes up over time. -------------------------- Except server costs and bandwidth, apparently ;)
    - mey 15y ago
      Or house prices (oh wait that has direct relevance to rental unit costs)
      - yummyfajitas 15y ago
        Rental 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 ago
  The 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 ago

I'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.