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Linode CLI
- slashdotdash 13y ago> Linode CLI is a simple command-line interface to the Linode platform. https://github.com/linode/cli https://github.com/linode/cli
- theOnliest 13y agoWhy not also release to CPAN? It would make managing the dependencies easier for those not installing the packages from homebrew/apt.
- kimmel 13y agoLets not forget the benefit of the automated test army known as CPAN Testers. You release to CPAN they test it across many versions of each major operating system Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, etc...
- draegtun 13y agoIt definitely would be beneficial if it were on CPAN. However they would need to add tests to the repo first :)
- riobard 13y agoLinode's shortest billing cycle is one month. If I use the CLI to create a linode and do something computation then delete it, am I still billed for a full month?
- citricsquid 13y agoLinode charges monthly, but they bill daily and credit an account when a linode is cancelled. If you create a 1GB linode on February 1st they will charge you $20, if you then destroy that linode on February 10th they will credit your account with the remaining full days (17) working out at ~$12 account credit. Also worth noting that if you deploy a linode near the end of a month they will count up the next month and bill all at once, for example if you purchased a linode on the 25th of February they would charge you for the remainder of February and March at once.
- thejosh 13y agoYes, but it's kind of silly that they charge you upfront for the entire month when you might only need something for a couple of hours. Their whole pricing needs a per-hour option, but I guess they are doing well enough off people who use their etnrei virtual machines 24x7.
- m_mueller 13y agoYou are aware that most payment processors have a per charge fee? As someone who's also into creating a PaaS I can completely understand why they charge the way they charge, I'd even say it's one of the fairest schemes in the industry. For what you want to do I suggest AWS.
- heywire 13y agoThis is one thing I really like about DigitalOcean... I can spin up a machine, perform some tasks, destroy it, all for a buck or two...
- aroch 13y agoExcept they return it as account credit not as actual money because Linode doesn't want to fall into the high risk category of payment processing because they refund a lot. If they just did hourly, or even daily, billing I would use them. But I don't want to spent $20 for what ends up being ¢75 of usage and then being forced to either use or lose the other $19.25
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- thezach 13y agoLinode... something that should of died long ago after the first security breach.
- D9u 13y agoWhy can't they just give SSH access into a chroot'd environment, or something like that? I hate having to add more stuff to address needs which are already met by commonly used software. (SSH client) I guess that's why I use VPS instead of Linode.
- kej 13y agoThey used to offer a Linode console that is exactly what you describe. Not sure if they still do, I've moved on to other services.
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- thaumaturgy 13y agoBecause one little mistake -- one error in their configuration, one sysadmin cockup at some point in the future, one bug in the software stack they use to provide such a thing -- and someone could get frightening amounts of access to the Linode network. I like this a lot better.
- x0054 13y agoThe Linode CLI is to manage the VPS node, not to manage your server directly. With Linode CLI you can resize, shutdown, boot up, hard reset, and mirror your VPS. It's basically all the controls you would have from your VPS control panel, but in a CLI.
- suhailpatel 13y agoUnless i'm missing something, Linode is a VPS. They give you full SSH access to a VPS just like every other VPS provider does. This tool is just so you don't have to use the web UI to provision a new VPS Linode Server and can instead use the command line