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That's a really anti-hobbyist move. With CAD losing value compared to USD, it means I have been paying more in the last year already. As a tiny hobby developper

That's a really anti-hobbyist move. With CAD losing value compared to USD, it means I have been paying more in the last year already. As a tiny hobby developper who has almost no traffic, lower egress fees mean nothing to me and the higher pricing means I'll just kill my projects. I guess they don't care about losing loyal customers and are shifting towards entreprise. It's a bit sad to sell your business to people who have no care for your original set of values. We need a new independent VPS provider.

winrid 4y ago
Most hobbyists will use the $5 machines which are not changing, though.
- ryandrake 4y ago
  Yep, as a 1GB Shared Nanode customer, that was the first thing I checked. Smart move. As a hobbyist I'm pretty price sensitive, and will not hesitate to abandon them if they go too far over their $4 competitors.
- antoineMoPa 4y ago
  I mean that's nice, but it's not so nice for my 10$ instance.
  - winrid 4y ago
    Do you mean your $12 instance? :)
- ilaksh 4y ago
  I've been using Linode for more than a decade. I advise hobbyists not to use the cheapest VPS option and neither do I. Its noticeably less performant and just because you are a hobbyist or whatever doesn't mean you can't spend $10-20 per month. In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies.
  - antoineMoPa 4y ago
    As some people pointed out, Linode used to increase the value of existing plans as RAM/disk/CPU got cheaper. Here, we are losing value relative to the price we are paying. They are trying to do just enough to not lose hobbyists, but the message is clear that individual developers are not a priority anymore.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies. There are some people who spend that much, but its way in the high tail of the distribution.
  - winrid 4y ago
    The $5 machines work fine for a lot of tasks. I have some services in production that people pay for running on $5 machines and they aren't anywhere near capacity, lol.
- peterangular 4y ago
  I'd like to point out that this comment is an assumption and isn't backed by any hard data. Anecdotally, I'm a hobbyist and I've had to use higher price tiers throughout my entire time with Linode. The low-end VPS instances are insanely limited if you're looking to accomplish any sort of real work.
- nextaccountic 4y ago
  $5? That's tad expensive in most of world. It's often better to use free tiers (https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev) or $1 / $2 VPS (https://lowendbox.com/ https://lowendbox.com/)
  - nebula8804 4y ago
    What I HATE about these VPS deals from lowendbox is my past experience of getting burned multiple times on VPS systems that have terrible uptime, become randomly unresponsive and the the provider being unresponsive, shutting down, or disappearing one day. I don't know if things have improved but I tread carefully because at some point my time and sanity become more valuable. Id love a microinstance for the cheapest possible price but I dont have a way to measure average uptime reliability.
- shirro 4y ago
  Not necessarily. There tends to be a sweet spot for performance and I expect the lowest hosting plans mostly serve to acquire customers in the expectation many will upgrade to more expensive plans
dahfizz 4y ago
After more than a decade of never increasing prices and improving the hardware for free, charging $12/mo instead of $10/mo means all hobby projects will die and Linode hates their customers. I think you're being a bit dramatic.
- antoineMoPa 4y ago
  It should have been something that happens before acquisition or years after. What I dislike is the message that this increase sends. My bank account can absorb this increase, my heart can't accept that Linode changed.
- wkat4242 4y ago
  $10 is already a lot though. I pay about $2.50 on scaleway with unlimited traffic
lamontcg 4y ago
> I guess they don't care about losing loyal customers and are shifting towards entreprise. I called it in the name-rebranding thread here. I've been noodling around on how I'm going to move, but it looks like I should really work harder on getting that done.
JeremyNT 4y ago
Yeah, it's really sad. I am going to be switching off of Linode after using it for many years happily. I am considering trying to exclusively use Oracle Cloud's "always free" tier. They literally give away small VMs for hobbyists and I've had one around for a few years now. Reliability isn't as good as Linode (what do you expect for free?) but as a small timer/hobbyist I don't really care. (as an aside, driving hobbyists away from your product to Oracle of all things is quite funny to me)

winrid 4y ago

Most hobbyists will use the $5 machines which are not changing, though.

ryandrake 4y ago
Yep, as a 1GB Shared Nanode customer, that was the first thing I checked. Smart move. As a hobbyist I'm pretty price sensitive, and will not hesitate to abandon them if they go too far over their $4 competitors.
antoineMoPa 4y ago
I mean that's nice, but it's not so nice for my 10$ instance.
- winrid 4y ago
  Do you mean your $12 instance? :)
ilaksh 4y ago
I've been using Linode for more than a decade. I advise hobbyists not to use the cheapest VPS option and neither do I. Its noticeably less performant and just because you are a hobbyist or whatever doesn't mean you can't spend $10-20 per month. In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies.
- antoineMoPa 4y ago
  As some people pointed out, Linode used to increase the value of existing plans as RAM/disk/CPU got cheaper. Here, we are losing value relative to the price we are paying. They are trying to do just enough to not lose hobbyists, but the message is clear that individual developers are not a priority anymore.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies. There are some people who spend that much, but its way in the high tail of the distribution.
- winrid 4y ago
  The $5 machines work fine for a lot of tasks. I have some services in production that people pay for running on $5 machines and they aren't anywhere near capacity, lol.
peterangular 4y ago
I'd like to point out that this comment is an assumption and isn't backed by any hard data. Anecdotally, I'm a hobbyist and I've had to use higher price tiers throughout my entire time with Linode. The low-end VPS instances are insanely limited if you're looking to accomplish any sort of real work.
nextaccountic 4y ago
$5? That's tad expensive in most of world. It's often better to use free tiers (https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev) or $1 / $2 VPS (https://lowendbox.com/ https://lowendbox.com/)
- nebula8804 4y ago
  What I HATE about these VPS deals from lowendbox is my past experience of getting burned multiple times on VPS systems that have terrible uptime, become randomly unresponsive and the the provider being unresponsive, shutting down, or disappearing one day. I don't know if things have improved but I tread carefully because at some point my time and sanity become more valuable. Id love a microinstance for the cheapest possible price but I dont have a way to measure average uptime reliability.
shirro 4y ago
Not necessarily. There tends to be a sweet spot for performance and I expect the lowest hosting plans mostly serve to acquire customers in the expectation many will upgrade to more expensive plans

dahfizz 4y ago

After more than a decade of never increasing prices and improving the hardware for free, charging $12/mo instead of $10/mo means all hobby projects will die and Linode hates their customers. I think you're being a bit dramatic.

antoineMoPa 4y ago
It should have been something that happens before acquisition or years after. What I dislike is the message that this increase sends. My bank account can absorb this increase, my heart can't accept that Linode changed.
wkat4242 4y ago
$10 is already a lot though. I pay about $2.50 on scaleway with unlimited traffic

lamontcg 4y ago

> I guess they don't care about losing loyal customers and are shifting towards entreprise. I called it in the name-rebranding thread here. I've been noodling around on how I'm going to move, but it looks like I should really work harder on getting that done.

JeremyNT 4y ago

Yeah, it's really sad. I am going to be switching off of Linode after using it for many years happily. I am considering trying to exclusively use Oracle Cloud's "always free" tier. They literally give away small VMs for hobbyists and I've had one around for a few years now. Reliability isn't as good as Linode (what do you expect for free?) but as a small timer/hobbyist I don't really care. (as an aside, driving hobbyists away from your product to Oracle of all things is quite funny to me)