Linode doesn't follow the cafeteria pricing style. You buy a package. $40/month is the minimum for us to get the disk space and I/O bandwidth we need. We cou

Linode doesn't follow the cafeteria pricing style. You buy a package. $40/month is the minimum for us to get the disk space and I/O bandwidth we need. We could get by with less CPU, perhaps, but the extra memory and extra cores do reduce latency and they are nice to have on days when SQLite is a top story at HN. (Load avg has been running at about 0.95% all day today.)