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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 evi

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!
gtaylor 13y ago
I've had super spotty luck with DO, and the support hasn't been great. Sometimes it's worth paying a little more for reliability and good support. Also, my Linodes seem to have much more consistent CPU performance. With DO it's been very hit or miss at that 1/2GB size. They may be cramming too many VMs on their hosts.

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!

gtaylor 13y ago

I've had super spotty luck with DO, and the support hasn't been great. Sometimes it's worth paying a little more for reliability and good support. Also, my Linodes seem to have much more consistent CPU performance. With DO it's been very hit or miss at that 1/2GB size. They may be cramming too many VMs on their hosts.