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Yeah it is a good move to compete, but I still think the customer base might be a bit different. I still think of Linode as more of a "real" type hosting envir
by JeremyMorgan 13y ago
Yeah it is a good move to compete, but I still think the customer base might be a bit different.
I still think of Linode as more of a "real" type hosting environment, in the time I used them I didn't didn't notice any difference from actual bare metal servers. If I didn't know better that's what I would think they were.
DO, to me is much more of a "toy" and experimenting type of service. I have tried hosting things on "droplets" and had strange issues, dropping, outages etc. Not frequent of course, but over say a week or two of uptime. I'm ok with it because it's $5 and what else would you expect? But I wouldn't think of hosting any real sites on droplets personally.
It's just my opinion and many people I've talked to have had the same experiences. Both are great services for different applications.
- vcherubini 13y agoI'm of the same opinion. I host all of my production apps on Linode (the 8 cores is nice too), and my staging environment is on DO. I don't mind paying more for Linode because I think their network is better.
- threeseed 13y agoLinode is the toy here. They have a long history of hiding information from customers during security incidents and outages. No one running a proper site would be crazy enough to host on Linode.
- jenscow 13y agoDo you have anything to support your claim?
- stevekemp 13y agoIt keeps getting brought up due to their repeated issues and lack of transparency. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5541915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5541915
- jenscow 13y agoI mean, a single instance (perhaps one more) is hardly a "long history" or "repeated issues".
- stevekemp 13y agoPersonally I wouldn't use them, and wouldn't recommend them. But I'm not here to argue about it. I took the time to search for five seconds because you wanted references, but were somehow incapable of making your own research, or making up your own mind. If you search you will find repeated instances, and that means a long history, with no changes after even a single security problem.