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The fact is linode is more expensive than Digital Ocean. I actually hope they stay that way. Why? My expectations are that they take that extra money and give

by jtchang 13y ago

The fact is linode is more expensive than Digital Ocean. I actually hope they stay that way. Why? My expectations are that they take that extra money and give me more assurances. Pricing is screwy and I fully admit this just may be pricing psychology. For the extra amount I expect: * Better support * More stable network and disk I/O * Feature decisions that favor stability over bleeding edge. Every quarter I am looking at digital ocean and wondering if I need to move our production boxes over. So far though Linode has me hooked. The extra amount I save is not worth it. Digital ocean wins hard on price but they need more than that to buy a customer. Just like the competition between Azure and Amazon, Azure needs to do MORE than price match. Azure needs to go above and beyond what I expect from Amazon.

dangero 13y ago
Outside of the standard SSD drives, DO has not had any major data breaches that I'm aware of. That's a pretty big one. At this point recommending Linode to a company I work for seems borderline negligent considering their security history.
- kyrra 13y ago
  DO had the issue where you could delete a droplet without scrubbing the disk. So the next person to create in that area could read the disk and recover any data from it.
  - dangero 13y ago
    To me that doesn't seem comparable to clear text passwords being stolen at all.
- rimantas 13y ago
  And recent events make recommending to use TLS and OpenSSL seem borderline negligent too, considering their security history, right?
  - dangero 13y ago
    That's a slippery slope. By that logic no company can be critiqued for security failures. Linode was storing their shell passwords in clear text. To me that's where I draw the line. On the other hand, if there were good alternatives to OpenSSL the community probably would be talking about considering them right now.

by jtchang 13y ago

dangero 13y ago

Outside of the standard SSD drives, DO has not had any major data breaches that I'm aware of. That's a pretty big one. At this point recommending Linode to a company I work for seems borderline negligent considering their security history.

kyrra 13y ago
DO had the issue where you could delete a droplet without scrubbing the disk. So the next person to create in that area could read the disk and recover any data from it.
- dangero 13y ago
  To me that doesn't seem comparable to clear text passwords being stolen at all.
rimantas 13y ago
And recent events make recommending to use TLS and OpenSSL seem borderline negligent too, considering their security history, right?
- dangero 13y ago
  That's a slippery slope. By that logic no company can be critiqued for security failures. Linode was storing their shell passwords in clear text. To me that's where I draw the line. On the other hand, if there were good alternatives to OpenSSL the community probably would be talking about considering them right now.