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11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan
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- skylan_q 12y agoI was considering getting a vps with them (since DO is dropping support for arch) but $20/month seemed like too much of a commitment for some hobby work. Now I'm sold. :)
- yogo 12y agoI wasn't aware of this but found https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-will-happen-to-arch-linux-sign-here-against-deprecation https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-will-h... One of my big reasons for having a few DO instances was the price + having Arch--many of the cheap providers don't provide Arch images. This new Linode plan will be a good option for the lower-end needs.
- geerlingguy 12y agoThis is great news; I have, for the past few years, been moving all my lower-end VPSes from Linode to Digital Ocean. I recently told a Linode rep at DrupalCon that I would start moving servers back as soon as they had a lower-cost plan, and it looks like Linode has delivered. Very few of my servers need more than 1 GB RAM, and the CPU and SSDs perform similarly across DO and Linode (for my purposes). I'll still be using a bunch of 512MB Digital Ocean servers for utility purposes, but I'm hoping that these Linode VPSes will continue the trend of being slightly faster/more stable than low-end VPSes from Digital Ocean and other lower-end/inexpensive hosts. Since I now use Ansible for all my infrastructure management (and Ansible integrates easily with Linode[1] and Digital Ocean[2]), it's trivially easy to move individual servers between providers. This is not only nice to assist with using the best price-performance combo, regardless of provider, but also so I can move production infrastructure from provider to provider and benchmark them against each other more easily. [1] http://docs.ansible.com/linode_module.html http://docs.ansible.com/linode_module.html [2] http://docs.ansible.com/digital_ocean_module.html http://docs.ansible.com/digital_ocean_module.html
- jsherer 12y agoI concur. I use Ansible for my deployments on Digital Ocean. It would be trivial to move over to Linode because of Ansible's flexibility (which is actually something I consider every time DO has network issues). Hopefully this competition helps both services step up their game.
- tedchs 12y agoFor the folks using Digital Ocean, have you considered Ramnode? $18 per year for their ultra-tiny plan, "OpenVZ SSD VPS (SVZ v2) - Atlanta - 128MB SVZ". I kinda love a company that constantly posts a 25% discount code on their own homepage. :)
- geerlingguy 12y agoI use many RamNodes for https://servercheck.in/ https://servercheck.in/ - the price is right!
- bluedino 12y agoThose are OpenVZ
- tedchs 12y agoCorrect, the ultra cheap one is OpenVZ (i.e. a container, not a VM). They do have a KVM option that looks like similar prices to DO/etc.
- zapt02 12y agoLinode is taking up the fight with DigitalOcean! With Linodes great reputation I'm sure a lot of people on DO will be trying their service in the coming weeks.
- fideloper 12y agoAs a consumer I should enjoy the "race to the bottom" of hosting pricing, but as one who wants to make my own *aaS apps, it's sort of troubling!
- erikano 12y agoI have a VPS with DigitalOcean and for some reason, logging in over SSH takes disturbingly long. I may decide to switch over to Linode with these new prices.
- rogerdpack 12y agoYeah no kidding why is that I wonder...
- erikano 12y agoTurning off UseDNS as suggested by user grey-area did the trick for me.
- yogo 12y agoI have experienced this too. I never inquired but it seems worse on NY2.
- ausjke 12y agoHave been a satisfied customer with Linode for 7 years. Now I can move my testing site to this new $10/m plan. Meanwhile I'm slightly concerned about the future quality from Linode, as low-priced $10 plan will certainly get lots of customers, but it may also bring down quality from Linode. Popularity normally plays against quality, I hope I am wrong.
- xienze 12y ago> Meanwhile I'm slightly concerned about the future quality from Linode, as low-priced $10 plan will certainly get lots of customers They've had a $10 plan for a looong time. It's just recently that they got rid of it, and now it's back.
- agwa 12y agoNo, $20/month has always been their least-expensive plan. In fact, caker (their founder) was adamant for a very long time against creating a less-expensive plan. (I've been customer for 9 years, and have occasionally hung out in their forums where caker also hangs out.)
- xienze 12y agoYou sure about that? I'm almost positive they've had a $10 plan before. When I signed up a few years ago I needed 1GB of RAM and the cheapest plan only had 512MB. I ended up paying $20 (well, $19.95 or whatever it was) and still do. Up until just recently my plan has always been the "one step up" plan from entry level. It was only with the "we doubled everything" announcement that they got rid of the plan below mine.
- sergiotapia 12y agoCompared to DigitalOcean: RAM - Processor - HD - Transfer Linode 1GB - 1 Core - 24GB SSD - 2TB DigitalOcean 1GB - 1 Core - 30GB SSD - 2TB Very compelling pricing, I may actually migrate a pet project of mine to Linode because they have a more robust support system. Now all they need to do is accept Paypal payments because I live in a third world country and do not own an international credit card.
- bluthru 12y agoIs there a meaningful difference in CPUs?
- windsurfer 12y agoBoth Linode and DO use a variety of CPUs, and make upgrades all the time for their host machines, and your individual speed can vary as other VMs on the host use more and less CPU power. That being said, Linode gives you access to as many cores as available on the host. In my case, I have 8 cores available, while DO restricts the number of cores available to guests based on plans (starting at 1 core). Another thing to consider is: If your jobs are typically CPU-limited, it's probably not best to use virtual hosting at all. Dedicated machines would be far more economical for you.
- rogerdpack 12y agoThe blog mentions that these $10 plans are on the "new" hardware, which, AFAICT, doesn't allow access to shared [unused] cores on the host anymore, so you really do have only 1 core max. FWIW. They're said to be nice speedy cores, though I've never tried one myself. Anyway, it's nice to see linode finally come down in their price point, thank goodness for competition, they're obviously responding to DO with this move. Unfortunately the $5 DO is good enough for me [SSD makes is so that swap time is less painful if I temporarily max out the RAM] so, alas, will be sticking with DO for now :|
- praxeologist 12y ago
- vcherubini 12y agoAnd there goes my DO plan. This is what Linode was missing, and I'm so happy it's here. Thanks, Linode!
- endijs 12y agohttps://twitter.com/linode/status/478548938010939392 https://twitter.com/linode/status/478548938010939392 for 10$ promo code if you want to try out. DigitalOcean very often gives out credits for testing, first time I see Linode doing that.
- kalmi10 12y agoIt seems that one still has to enter credit card details and preload at least 5$.
- sergiotapia 12y agoUnfortunately, they only take credit cards, and not only that - I need to type in my non-existant card details in order to try out their free $10/month.
- mcescalante 12y agoDoes anybody have a good comparison or story of why Linode is "more reliable" than DO? I've read the simple "Digital Ocean vs. Linode" stuff posted here, but it never offers any quantitative insight as to why people find Linode more reliable. Anecdotes encouraged :)
- opendais 12y agohttp://status.linode.com/ http://status.linode.com/ vs. https://status.digitalocean.com/ https://status.digitalocean.com/ I don't trust people's opinions unless either of them get caught outright lying on their status pages. ;) Anecdotal: I've seen ~5x as many VPS restarts due to host issues on DO than Linode.
- jsherer 12y agoI've saw restarts and networks issues frequently on DO months ago. They seem to have stabilized in the NYC datacenters where I host https://minimalreader.com/ https://minimalreader.com/ but overall, the stability always seems to be on the edge of collapse. I'm not sure if that's because they are growing so quickly they cannot keep their network and hosts up with the demand, or what.
- qmr 12y agoNot a useful metric unless both use absolutely identical criteria for posting.
- abhorrence 12y agoDO pretty much never seems to post anything on their status page unless it affects a lot of their customers -- I've had support tickets with them where they say a problem is affecting "some" customers, but they pretty much never posted it on their status page. Whereas Linode seems to post status problems far more frequently, and pretty much none of the problems listed have ever affected any of my nodes. Of course, this is all anecdotal, but Linode really does seem to over report on their status page. And DO perhaps under reports.
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- NYCHacker 12y agohow does Linode compare to Amazon AWS?
- gtaylor 12y agoApples to oranges. AWS's main appeal isn't VMs (EC2), it's the huge portfolio of other services you can make use of. Linode is more of a VM host with a few also-ran services that they are experimenting with (Load Balancing). If all you need is somewhere to host a cheap VM, go Linode. If you want to make use of a larger collection of services (that you don't have to maintain) to build applications on, AWS may be worth a look.
- Kudos 12y agoYou can use Linode for not cheap VMs too. A good use case for Linode is high bandwidth sites, Amazon's data transfer charges are horrendous.
- edwinyzh 12y agoI have just submitted a ticket to ask Linode about downgrading from my current $20 plan, since I host PHP websites only, and I use Ubuntu 32bit, and I don't want to take risks to switch the kernel to 64bit in order to take advantage of their recent free hardware upgrades:https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-ram-much-more/ https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-... I don't see any reasons they'll not let me downgrade, since there is no reason to pay $20 and use the $10 spec, right? I'll keep you posted about it.
- fps 12y agoit's pretty easy to change linode plans. click on the instance in the manager (https://manager.linode.com/ https://manager.linode.com/) and then on "resize." Linode 1024 is the new one. The whole process takes about 15 minutes.
- Kudos 12y agoTheir concern is that they'll get migrated to a server that doesn't support 32-bit linux, not that it's something they found difficult to do.
- bhousel 12y agoFWIW, I am in the same situation as you, but I did perform the kernel upgrade and it was quick and painless..
- edwinyzh 12y agoFrom the control panel, I can see the conversion process should be easy, but my concern is my VPS will have problem after the upgrade... I'm not a Linux guy and too busy to investigate into it right now...
- Macha 12y agoI think the $10 boxes are on the new hardware and so you'll need to either wait for 32bit support on the new hosts or upgrade to 64bit to switch to it anyway.
- ekar45 12y agohttp://perks.coderin90.com http://perks.coderin90.com (we wanna join in on the fun!!!!) learn to code and get some perks
- ForHackernews 12y agoStop spamming your site on every tangentially-related article.
- misterbwong 12y agoWhat does everyone use these low-end plans for? Seeing the interest in this thread has gotten me curious.
- Grimm665 12y agoPersonally I run a Ventrilo server on a free-tier AWS. Better than paying for a lifetime server with only 5 slots, considering mine is unlimited, free for the first year, and probably under $5 a month after that (plus it's always good to know I have an always-available Linux server outside my LAN for various reasons, so that makes the $5 a month worth it when the free plan ends).
- feralmoan 12y agodatabase replication, elasticsearch, log repositories, headless workers...
- ohashi 12y agoI spin up a lot of these low end instances for testing and small projects.
- phaedryx 12y agoA minecraft server so that my kids can play with a couple of their friends.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoI'd be interested in this - how easy was it to set up, is there an image or something that one can use so I don't have to worry about iptables rules and things but can just spin up an instance and go?
- blisterpeanuts 12y agoProof-of-concept project for work -- ported a Weblogic Java web app from work server to JBoss on Linode -- worked beautifully. I closed my account a few days ago when I realized I hadn't touched it in a couple of months, but the $10 will probably lure me back. It's nice having an extra vps or two for testing/backups etc.
- guylhem 12y agoI'm new to linode. What is their outgoing bandwidth policy? I mean, is it possible to automatically set up a throttle, to avoid charges when going over 2TB? (or do I have to fiddle with iptables to find a way to do that). Also, do you know if it's possible to get a /48 IPv6? On https://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6 https://library.linode.com/networking/ipv6 they only mention /56 I'd hate to run a HE tunnelbroker just because they don't support that :-/ (I love HE.net and tunnelbroker.net, but it would just be wasteful) EDIT: /48 make running multiple VPNs very easy - that's lazy, but IPv6 are not scarce resources! EDIT2: just got an answer - they can't do /48 :-(
- RKearney 12y agoWhat use case do you have for requiring a /48 on one server? That's 65536 /64s.
- SudoAlex 12y agoYou can get a /56 - which should still be sufficient for most users needs.
- tedchs 12y agoI filed a ticket for a /48 and their support set it up for me. I didn't use it heavily but it worked very well; I basically made my own personal tunnel broker. :) A /56 still gives you (64-56)^2 = 64 /64's, and I wouldn't think you'd want to run more than 64 tunnels through one box anyway.
- guylhem 12y agoUse promo code LINODE10 and you'll get $10 off - ie one free month! You'll be charged $5 on your credit card, but your account will then show a $15 credit. Feel free to use my referral code 9ed7a90501142890c1c8cfca43f1c872e7494470 or link https://www.linode.com/?r=9ed7a90501142890c1c8cfca43f1c872e7494470 https://www.linode.com/?r=9ed7a90501142890c1c8cfca43f1c872e7... so that I benefit from it too :-)
- ahmett 12y agoNote, DigitalOcean has a $5 plan, and works quite fine for my case where I host tons of small traffic websites and background tasks.
- efuquen 12y agoAgreed. Funny timing as I was just checking back to look at Linode pricing yesterday after having made the switch to DO over a year ago and was amazed they're cheapest plan was $20. Good to see they've lowered it further but even that $5 difference is a big deal if you're using a lot of vms and simply don't need the extra memory from a $10 a month plan. They need to at least reach parity, otherwise there really isn't any incentive for me to switch to pay $5 more a month per VM that I know doesn't need the extra resources.
- thecosas 12y agoJust downgraded to this. Half the price of the $20/m plan. Never really needed all they were giving me. Woo hoo!
- kibwen 12y agoI've just downgraded as well. While the server itself is invaluable, I've only ever used a tiny fraction of its potential each month. However, at this price point, I'm considering spinning up a second server just to tool around with (which is what this server was originally for before I and all my friends started relying on it as a proxy/gameserver/URL shortener/IRC persistor).
- blisterpeanuts 12y agoReally, this is excellent news. I just deleted my $20/month Linode last week, because I only got it to do some proof-of-concept stuff at work. But the $10 price point will probably persuade me to start it up again, and I can always upgrade later if I start needing the premium resources.
- scorpioxy 12y agoVery nice. I can't seem to find it anymore on the site; is the discount on yearly prepayment still valid?
- kbar13 12y agofor all new customer accounts, no. You can still get the discount if you're still on the legacy prepaid billing accounts.
- jebblue 12y agoYou just need to hunt for it a bit, https://library.linode.com/prepaid-billing https://library.linode.com/prepaid-billing Edit: I don't know who downvoted me, moderators fix please?
- subbu 12y agoHow does this compare to Hetzner's servers? Lets say http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq12 http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_vserver/vq12
- gtaylor 12y agoThe only correct answer is: benchmark according to your specific application's needs, since your demands may be different than mine or someone else's. For more general benchmarks, this is handy: http://serverbear.com/ http://serverbear.com/ But really, spin them up and test for the things that your usage case most needs. My stuff doesn't hit the disk at all, so the fact that Hetzner doesn't (at a glance) appear to be SSD-backed wouldn't bother me, but might not be OK for someone else's usage case.
- nickporter 12y agoI've been using linode for +3 years now, and it's been great. Top notch support, and they have Gentoo images!
- godDLL 12y agoCloudLix $10 1.5GB - 1 Core - 50GB SSD - 100Mbps 'unmetered' http://www.cloudlix.com/nuolaida;1bb1f52aa5 http://www.cloudlix.com/nuolaida;1bb1f52aa5 (thank you).