4 ms·

Shiny new services will always be popping up with great deals and "faster" servers but I prefer to not move my infrastructure every time the next host du jour c

Shiny new services will always be popping up with great deals and "faster" servers but I prefer to not move my infrastructure every time the next host du jour comes out. Plus, they're just going to raise their prices once they get a critical mass of customers. Linode has been there through thick and thin for me. Sounds cheesy, but they report on and fix issues before I even notice them, I've only had to submit a ticket once (for something that was my fault), and their infrastructure is tight as a drum. Linode is very, very reliable. Another thing that many people who work with larger applications than mine will tell you is that speed is not important, what's important is consistency. Linode's virtualization is set up to provide, above all, consistency (even on a loaded host). So sure your site might run 1.6778 times faster on DO, but when the host server is loaded your site's going to be crawling because the other neighbors are bursting their CPU into your space. We'll see if DO's prices and performance stand the test of time. My guess is their support is extremely lacking in comparison. When everything's running perfectly, this is great. But when the chips are down can you really rely on them? I guess we'll see.

taligent 14y ago
Wow. I found the complete opposite. Linode would routinely not respond during major incidents (e.g. power outage at Fremont which was common for me) and when they did they were often not clear about what was happening. Their infrastructure is hardly tight as a drum (Google 'Linode bitcoin').
- orthecreedence 14y ago
  From reading through the comments, it seems a lot of the pain points for Linode happened in the non-Dallas datacenters. Our servers are hosted there with almost 0 problems. I did a good amount of research on which Linode datacenters are the best before placing our servers there (this was years ago) and found that the Fremont datacenter had a lot of flaky issues (and if your experience was recent at all, then they apparently still have issues). So maybe Linode's main support system is set up to favor Dallas, which if this is true is pretty shoddy. I'd be interested to hear more experiences from other people across different datacenters.

taligent 14y ago

Wow. I found the complete opposite. Linode would routinely not respond during major incidents (e.g. power outage at Fremont which was common for me) and when they did they were often not clear about what was happening. Their infrastructure is hardly tight as a drum (Google 'Linode bitcoin').

orthecreedence 14y ago
From reading through the comments, it seems a lot of the pain points for Linode happened in the non-Dallas datacenters. Our servers are hosted there with almost 0 problems. I did a good amount of research on which Linode datacenters are the best before placing our servers there (this was years ago) and found that the Fremont datacenter had a lot of flaky issues (and if your experience was recent at all, then they apparently still have issues). So maybe Linode's main support system is set up to favor Dallas, which if this is true is pretty shoddy. I'd be interested to hear more experiences from other people across different datacenters.