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Does the price seem steep to anyone, seeing as it's the same price as 512MB virt but does only load balancing?

whakojacko 15y ago
You are also paying for 1) their software work involved and 2) running on multiple hosts, which is a must for any non-trivial environment
thaumaturgy 15y ago
Not to me; if you have a problem which NodeBalancer can solve, then it's likely that you already have multiple Linodes and an additional $19.95 will be a relative drop in the bucket, especially given what you get from it.
mgrouchy 15y ago
$20/mo is a trivial amount of money to spend to not have to manage it yourself.
mrinterweb 15y ago
If your stack requires a load balancer, you would have to pay $19.95 for a dedicated 512 node that you would need to then configure and manage your own load balancer. This new service is also managed, distributed, and has an API. $19.95/month seems like a steal to me.
- jsprinkles 15y ago
  One Linode 512 is not highly available. Two is. The documentation indicates that this service is highly-available.
  - mrinterweb 15y ago
    True. I was intending to draw a comparison to what kind of load balancing you can get on Linode for $19.95 if you were to do it yourself. I highly doubt it is possible to roll a superior load balancer service on your own for less than NodeBalancer. I was recently trying to figure out how I was going to handle this on Linode. I am very glad to see this new service. If NodeBalancer has the ability to fail over to other data centers in the instance of a data center wide outage then I'll be set.
rmason 15y ago
Twenty bucks a month is nothing. It's pretty hard to find any hardware load balancers for less than $1500 each. At my last job I wrote a hardware proposal that called for redundant $80K load balancers. Though I'm sure that the NodeBalancer can't match the feature set yet of the high end machines I sure like this trend.
lanstein 15y ago
No.
b1tr0t 15y ago
Let's compare with Rackspace cloud load balancer for one month (30 days * 24 hours) = 720 hours. (From their pricing page: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadbalancers/pricing/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...). Linode is allowing 5000 simultaneous connections. Rackspace charges for balanced bandwidth. Let's pick something modest 1 TB up, 5 TB down. Rackspace cost: $1530.80/mo. So, I'd say linode's price seems quite reasonable. :)
shuttlebrad 15y ago
Compare $20 to the cost of 1. working out how to do it yourself 2. ironing out any kinks in your homegrown solution 3. worrying about it 2am. Totally worthwhile. (edit: formatting)

You are also paying for 1) their software work involved and 2) running on multiple hosts, which is a must for any non-trivial environment

thaumaturgy 15y ago

Not to me; if you have a problem which NodeBalancer can solve, then it's likely that you already have multiple Linodes and an additional $19.95 will be a relative drop in the bucket, especially given what you get from it.

mgrouchy 15y ago

$20/mo is a trivial amount of money to spend to not have to manage it yourself.

mrinterweb 15y ago

If your stack requires a load balancer, you would have to pay $19.95 for a dedicated 512 node that you would need to then configure and manage your own load balancer. This new service is also managed, distributed, and has an API. $19.95/month seems like a steal to me.

jsprinkles 15y ago
One Linode 512 is not highly available. Two is. The documentation indicates that this service is highly-available.
- mrinterweb 15y ago
  True. I was intending to draw a comparison to what kind of load balancing you can get on Linode for $19.95 if you were to do it yourself. I highly doubt it is possible to roll a superior load balancer service on your own for less than NodeBalancer. I was recently trying to figure out how I was going to handle this on Linode. I am very glad to see this new service. If NodeBalancer has the ability to fail over to other data centers in the instance of a data center wide outage then I'll be set.

rmason 15y ago

Twenty bucks a month is nothing. It's pretty hard to find any hardware load balancers for less than $1500 each. At my last job I wrote a hardware proposal that called for redundant $80K load balancers. Though I'm sure that the NodeBalancer can't match the feature set yet of the high end machines I sure like this trend.

lanstein 15y ago

No.

b1tr0t 15y ago

Let's compare with Rackspace cloud load balancer for one month (30 days * 24 hours) = 720 hours. (From their pricing page: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadbalancers/pricing/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...). Linode is allowing 5000 simultaneous connections. Rackspace charges for balanced bandwidth. Let's pick something modest 1 TB up, 5 TB down. Rackspace cost: $1530.80/mo. So, I'd say linode's price seems quite reasonable. :)

shuttlebrad 15y ago

Compare $20 to the cost of 1. working out how to do it yourself 2. ironing out any kinks in your homegrown solution 3. worrying about it 2am. Totally worthwhile. (edit: formatting)