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Reading about Linode Managed on their website [1] appears to be nothing more than (1) OS backups, and (2) a monitoring agent installed on the OS to report the s

by alberth 13y ago

Reading about Linode Managed on their website [1] appears to be nothing more than (1) OS backups, and (2) a monitoring agent installed on the OS to report the server is up and running. Am I missing something here? [1] https://www.linode.com/managed/ https://www.linode.com/managed/

nemesisj 13y ago
Well, compared with Rackspace's managed offering which doesn't offer either of those feature, I think it's a start.
- toddmorey 13y ago
  Rackspace: "Up to 8 checks free from Rackspace Cloud Monitoring, for 24x7x365 monitoring of URL content, port, and ping" [1] "File-level backups. No charge per-server. File storage: $0.10/GB/month. Bandwidth: $0.18/GB/month." [2] [1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/managed_cloud/support_a/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/managed_cloud/support_a/ [2] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/support/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/support/
  - nemesisj 13y ago
    Rackspace's monitoring is in beta and only offers 5 minute level granularity last I checked. Their backups you noted aren't free or included in managed cloud (they're additional).
jharrison 13y ago
The article also mentions proactive response to issues they discover on your behalf. FTA: "If a check fails, our experts will take immediate steps to get your systems back online as quickly as possible" There are a number of other services listed on that page, including "Longview Pro - the professional version of our system-level statistics collection and graphing service (currently in beta)." I got all that from reading the page you linked.
- alberth 13y ago
  I read that as well. But having someone else log into my server to just restart it doesn't seem all that appealing to me for $100/mo.
  - eli 13y ago
    Then you are perhaps not the target customer. Rackspace Cloud offers very nearly the same service at a similar price.
porker 13y ago
Compared to LiquidWeb's offering [0] it doesn't seem much. [0] http://www.liquidweb.com/support/compare.html http://www.liquidweb.com/support/compare.html

by alberth 13y ago

nemesisj 13y ago

Well, compared with Rackspace's managed offering which doesn't offer either of those feature, I think it's a start.

toddmorey 13y ago
Rackspace: "Up to 8 checks free from Rackspace Cloud Monitoring, for 24x7x365 monitoring of URL content, port, and ping" [1] "File-level backups. No charge per-server. File storage: $0.10/GB/month. Bandwidth: $0.18/GB/month." [2] [1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/managed_cloud/support_a/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/managed_cloud/support_a/ [2] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/support/ http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/support/
- nemesisj 13y ago
  Rackspace's monitoring is in beta and only offers 5 minute level granularity last I checked. Their backups you noted aren't free or included in managed cloud (they're additional).

jharrison 13y ago

The article also mentions proactive response to issues they discover on your behalf. FTA: "If a check fails, our experts will take immediate steps to get your systems back online as quickly as possible" There are a number of other services listed on that page, including "Longview Pro - the professional version of our system-level statistics collection and graphing service (currently in beta)." I got all that from reading the page you linked.

alberth 13y ago
I read that as well. But having someone else log into my server to just restart it doesn't seem all that appealing to me for $100/mo.
- eli 13y ago
  Then you are perhaps not the target customer. Rackspace Cloud offers very nearly the same service at a similar price.

porker 13y ago

Compared to LiquidWeb's offering [0] it doesn't seem much. [0] http://www.liquidweb.com/support/compare.html http://www.liquidweb.com/support/compare.html