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And this is why I love Linode. I have been paying $20/month for around 3 years. At first I had 256M of RAM and 12G of harddrive space... and now I have 1G of RA

by earlz 13y ago

And this is why I love Linode. I have been paying $20/month for around 3 years. At first I had 256M of RAM and 12G of harddrive space... and now I have 1G of RAM and 48G of harddrive space. I dare you to look at other providers and see if they have offered such aggressive, yet free, upgrades

walnut20 13y ago
For $20/month, Digital Ocean provide 2GB memory, 2 cores, 40GB SSD disk and 3TB transfer.
- toomuchtodo 13y ago
  And they don't have a poor track record with regards to handling security breaches.
  - mindstab 13y ago
    ... they are kind of too new to have a track record one way or the other aren't they? Same for the hardware. they are the new kids on the block. For now it's the newest and shiniest but long term lets see how they keep pace. Linode's been around a while and done a good job of dragging all it's customer's along to newer hardware.
    - toomuchtodo 13y ago
      No track record > Systematically failing to handle multiple breaches properly.
    - perryh2 13y ago
      The people behind DigitalOcean have been around for a while with ServerStack, the parent company. The main engineers also used to work at another major cloud hosting company.
  - opendais 13y ago
    http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/?cid=co6834744 http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/?c... I'm not seeing how this is a record superior to Linode. That said, I use DO due to its price point for hobby/testing projects and dropped Linode completely.
LordIllidan 13y ago
Meanwhile, $20 a month at digitalocean gets you 2G of RAM and 40 Gb of ssd. Not to diss Linode, I use them myself, but they're not the cheapest. It's quite evident to me that these free upgrades are a defensive tactic. How much memory or disk space would $20 a month get from other providers 3 years ago?
- clicks 13y ago
  I switched to DO a few months ago, ... and just recently switched back to Linode. I'll pay the extra few bucks for reliability and decent uptime. I had very frequent downtimes and the support was often unhelpful. I heard from others that it was just the datacenter that my VPS was on and other DC weren't as bad, but I guess it gave me enough of a bad impression that I went back to Linode anyway.
  - forsaken 13y ago
    I'm using it non-production things, and have had a similar experience. I'm in the SFO data center, and I've lost connectivity to the machine at least 5 times in the past month.
    - sumukh1 13y ago
      I've had the same issues and it's preventing me from using it for anything serious. A lot of the other things with DO (provisioning, backup, snapshots) are great but the network seems to the biggest issue at the SF datacenter.
- grahamedgecombe 13y ago
  I suspect DigitalOcean have more virtual servers per physical machine than Linode do, which is probably why they can offer cheaper prices. This means you probably won't be able to use as much CPU power and I/O (more people contending for the same resources.)
- kintamanimatt 13y ago
  The other thing about DigitalOcean is they haven't rolled out IPv6 or private IPs yet. They did seem to promise a release date for the former several months ago. I asked them about this yesterday and after I pressed the issue the rep snapped at me and told me that I didn't understand how difficult it is! Linode it is!
gigamike 13y ago
I have both Linode and DO instances but I have lots of reliability issues with my DO instance. I usually have 5-7 minutes per day where it is unreachable by my offsite Nagios host which also monitors my Linode instance. My Linode instance has had 3 minutes of unreachability in the past 30 days.
gamegoblin 13y ago
I've used prgmr.com for a while now and am pretty content with it. That being said, I am not running anything mission critical on it, so the occasional hiccups are a pretty easy price to pay for a super cheap VPS. I pay $8 a month for 256MiB RAM, 6GiB HD, and 40GiB transfer. As far as price points go on the larger plans, Linode currently has the advantage in transfer and disk space. I'll be interested to see if prgmr increases it to compete.
- lsc 13y ago
  Plans are in the works to respond to Linode and Digital Ocean. Plans have been in the works for... some time now; but... yeah. My 'automation debt' is absolutely killing me here. (lack of capital isn't helping much, either, but right now, insufficient automation, and my inherent conservatism are probably the biggest problems.) I'm doing existing customers first, of course, and starting with customers that I promised upgrades to a long time ago, which is actually slowing the whole process down quite a lot. Another interesting thing is that right now, I charge a $4/account charge, then a incremental fee, right now $1 for every 64mib ram/1.5gb disk, which means that as you get a larger plan, you get more stuff for your money. As far as I can tell, none of the other players do that (and some competitors do the opposite, giving you more resources per dollar on the smaller plans than on the larger plans.) - so I am wondering if I should reduce or eliminate that fee.
  - _delirium 13y ago
    It seems like transfer would be an 'easy' upgrade in that it doesn't require a lot of per-server manual effort, just a change to the billing system (threshold at which accounts are billed for overages). But I dunno if that makes sense, given purchasing decisions and your cost structure. Are people's purchase decisions keying off transfer quota at all, or are RAM/HDD are the real price-point issues? And if they are, would doubling transfer, say, make a difference, or would you have to match Linode (currently offering 10x the transfer at equivalent price points)? So maybe this is a dumb idea.
    - lsc 13y ago

by earlz 13y ago

walnut20 13y ago

For $20/month, Digital Ocean provide 2GB memory, 2 cores, 40GB SSD disk and 3TB transfer.

toomuchtodo 13y ago
And they don't have a poor track record with regards to handling security breaches.
- mindstab 13y ago
  ... they are kind of too new to have a track record one way or the other aren't they? Same for the hardware. they are the new kids on the block. For now it's the newest and shiniest but long term lets see how they keep pace. Linode's been around a while and done a good job of dragging all it's customer's along to newer hardware.
  - toomuchtodo 13y ago
    No track record > Systematically failing to handle multiple breaches properly.
  - perryh2 13y ago
    The people behind DigitalOcean have been around for a while with ServerStack, the parent company. The main engineers also used to work at another major cloud hosting company.
- opendais 13y ago
  http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/?cid=co6834744 http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/?c... I'm not seeing how this is a record superior to Linode. That said, I use DO due to its price point for hobby/testing projects and dropped Linode completely.

LordIllidan 13y ago

Meanwhile, $20 a month at digitalocean gets you 2G of RAM and 40 Gb of ssd. Not to diss Linode, I use them myself, but they're not the cheapest. It's quite evident to me that these free upgrades are a defensive tactic. How much memory or disk space would $20 a month get from other providers 3 years ago?

clicks 13y ago
I switched to DO a few months ago, ... and just recently switched back to Linode. I'll pay the extra few bucks for reliability and decent uptime. I had very frequent downtimes and the support was often unhelpful. I heard from others that it was just the datacenter that my VPS was on and other DC weren't as bad, but I guess it gave me enough of a bad impression that I went back to Linode anyway.
- forsaken 13y ago
  I'm using it non-production things, and have had a similar experience. I'm in the SFO data center, and I've lost connectivity to the machine at least 5 times in the past month.
  - sumukh1 13y ago
    I've had the same issues and it's preventing me from using it for anything serious. A lot of the other things with DO (provisioning, backup, snapshots) are great but the network seems to the biggest issue at the SF datacenter.
grahamedgecombe 13y ago
I suspect DigitalOcean have more virtual servers per physical machine than Linode do, which is probably why they can offer cheaper prices. This means you probably won't be able to use as much CPU power and I/O (more people contending for the same resources.)
kintamanimatt 13y ago
The other thing about DigitalOcean is they haven't rolled out IPv6 or private IPs yet. They did seem to promise a release date for the former several months ago. I asked them about this yesterday and after I pressed the issue the rep snapped at me and told me that I didn't understand how difficult it is! Linode it is!

gigamike 13y ago

I have both Linode and DO instances but I have lots of reliability issues with my DO instance. I usually have 5-7 minutes per day where it is unreachable by my offsite Nagios host which also monitors my Linode instance. My Linode instance has had 3 minutes of unreachability in the past 30 days.

gamegoblin 13y ago

I've used prgmr.com for a while now and am pretty content with it. That being said, I am not running anything mission critical on it, so the occasional hiccups are a pretty easy price to pay for a super cheap VPS. I pay $8 a month for 256MiB RAM, 6GiB HD, and 40GiB transfer. As far as price points go on the larger plans, Linode currently has the advantage in transfer and disk space. I'll be interested to see if prgmr increases it to compete.

lsc 13y ago
Plans are in the works to respond to Linode and Digital Ocean. Plans have been in the works for... some time now; but... yeah. My 'automation debt' is absolutely killing me here. (lack of capital isn't helping much, either, but right now, insufficient automation, and my inherent conservatism are probably the biggest problems.) I'm doing existing customers first, of course, and starting with customers that I promised upgrades to a long time ago, which is actually slowing the whole process down quite a lot. Another interesting thing is that right now, I charge a $4/account charge, then a incremental fee, right now $1 for every 64mib ram/1.5gb disk, which means that as you get a larger plan, you get more stuff for your money. As far as I can tell, none of the other players do that (and some competitors do the opposite, giving you more resources per dollar on the smaller plans than on the larger plans.) - so I am wondering if I should reduce or eliminate that fee.
- _delirium 13y ago
  It seems like transfer would be an 'easy' upgrade in that it doesn't require a lot of per-server manual effort, just a change to the billing system (threshold at which accounts are billed for overages). But I dunno if that makes sense, given purchasing decisions and your cost structure. Are people's purchase decisions keying off transfer quota at all, or are RAM/HDD are the real price-point issues? And if they are, would doubling transfer, say, make a difference, or would you have to match Linode (currently offering 10x the transfer at equivalent price points)? So maybe this is a dumb idea.
  - lsc 13y ago