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YESSS This is awesome news. Linode is my favorite VPS host, and now it's going to be so much more viable for quickly testing things, and also for quick scaling
by orthecreedence 13y ago
YESSS This is awesome news. Linode is my favorite VPS host, and now it's going to be so much more viable for quickly testing things, and also for quick scaling up.
This is doubly good news because Linode instances are well-geared towards CPU work (having 8 cores by default), so if you use a queue-based architecture for background processing, you can now spin up 10 instances to process a bunch of work, and take them down a few hours later when the rush is over.
I especially love the monthly cap, so people who just want a server don't pay unpredictable amounts every month.
Thanks, Linode.
- walden42 13y agoI'll need to choose a cloud host soon for an online service that will require great uptime, and Linode is one of my top choices. The reviews, uptime, and prices are great, including management services. The ONLY thing that's keeping me on the fence is lack of SSD's, as there will be a ton of I/O on the relational database. I read that they're beta testing SSD servers, so I hope they come out soon.
- gmac 13y agoBear in mind that Linode's SAS arrays apparently already outperform Digital Ocean's (presumably somewhat crappy) SSD setup, so this may or may not be a silver bullet. I have a Postgres-based service on a Linode — it works fine in my (mainly read-based) use case, but I do pay for quite a lot of RAM in order to get enough caching.
- walden42 13y agoDo you have a source for this? I just did a quick google search, and although they're somewhat comparable, DO outperformed Linode. And the tests were for read-only, not writes. I'd wager that writes are much faster on an SSD.