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Compared to DigitalOcean: RAM - Processor - HD - Transfer Linode 1GB - 1 Core - 24GB SSD - 2TB DigitalOcean 1GB - 1

Compared 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 ago
Is there a meaningful difference in CPUs?
- windsurfer 12y ago
  Both 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 ago
    The 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
      How might the performance of the $5 DO or either of the $10 from Linode/DO compare to what I get from my ~$10 shared hosting? I'm probably going to try a VPS at some point, but was just curious about if I could get rid of the shared and move my sites over too.
      - uladzislau 12y ago
        From my experience $5 DO is more robust than most shared plans. However the trade off is that you have to setup and maintain everything yourself including security.
        rogerdpack 12y ago
        Yeah for me my $5 DO beats the heck [for a rails app] out of having to use fcgi and have them constantly shutting down my processes, (in this case--bluehost) disabling my account for having too many files, etc. It is much faster.
  - qmr 12y ago
    Linode CPU cores are aligned with plan sizes.[1] The last generation of plans offered 8 cores across the board.[2] The hosts have more than 8 cores.[3] [1] https://www.linode.com/pricing https://www.linode.com/pricing [2] https://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/ https://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardwa... [3] http://ark.intel.com/products/75277/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2680-v2-25M-Cache-2_80-GHz?q=e5-2680 http://ark.intel.com/products/75277/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...
ekar45 12y ago
I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)
- ralfn 12y ago
  I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs. If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example. Companies smart enough to allow people in nothern-europe to actually pay: Valve, Apple. Companies dumb enough not to: EA, Google. Who is selling online and who is not? Newsflash: If your sales numbers are less in Northern-Europe than they are in the US, it's because you are either actively blocking those customers (region-locks or refusal to ship) or you are not accepting n-european payment gateways. Credit cards are the equivelant of saying 'i only want american customers and everybody else can go to hell'. Let's just hope your bussiness is viable enough in just the US to be this ignorant.
  - shiven 12y ago
    Why are credit cards 'evil'? Honest question. I mean they don't go spend themselves, are protected 100% against fraud (in the US at least) and if paid in full every month, cost nothing to the card holder. If anything, it is not a company's fault that Northern Europe has social/cultural hang-ups for a mode of payment!
    - romaniv 12y ago
      Because credit card system is not sustainable without various hidden fees, overdrafts, default rates and so on.
      - middleclick 12y ago
        Is it? I have never paid any hidden fee, or overdrafts. Set a reminder for every fifteen days, pump up the credit card and everything sails smoothly.
riquito 12y ago
I suspect that the two SSD are on different levels. Linode has higher standards. I don't know if the following benchmarks are real, but if it is we're talking about really different hardware (780 Mb/s vs 250 Mb/s) http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean Maybe someone with both accounts can do a quick benchmark to verify or deny this data.
- scottlinux 12y ago
  Those are accurate numbers. https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=10960#p63254 https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=10960#p63254
- btreecat 12y ago
  This could be something I am interested in testing. I just migrated to DO, however I kept a small credit on Linode hoping they introduced cheaper plans.
Sir_Cmpwn 12y ago
I also appreciate the fact that Linode hasn't deprecated Arch Linux images like DO has. DO also seems to be pretty bad at listening to users.

bluthru 12y ago

Is there a meaningful difference in CPUs?

windsurfer 12y ago
Both 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 ago
  The 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
    How might the performance of the $5 DO or either of the $10 from Linode/DO compare to what I get from my ~$10 shared hosting? I'm probably going to try a VPS at some point, but was just curious about if I could get rid of the shared and move my sites over too.
    - uladzislau 12y ago
      From my experience $5 DO is more robust than most shared plans. However the trade off is that you have to setup and maintain everything yourself including security.
      - rogerdpack 12y ago
        Yeah for me my $5 DO beats the heck [for a rails app] out of having to use fcgi and have them constantly shutting down my processes, (in this case--bluehost) disabling my account for having too many files, etc. It is much faster.
- qmr 12y ago
  Linode CPU cores are aligned with plan sizes.[1] The last generation of plans offered 8 cores across the board.[2] The hosts have more than 8 cores.[3] [1] https://www.linode.com/pricing https://www.linode.com/pricing [2] https://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/ https://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardwa... [3] http://ark.intel.com/products/75277/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2680-v2-25M-Cache-2_80-GHz?q=e5-2680 http://ark.intel.com/products/75277/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...

ekar45 12y ago

I live in a 3rd world country too; but they accept my local card (mastercard)

ralfn 12y ago
I live in a 1st world country (northern-europe) and nobody i know owns a credit card. Everybody considers them expensive, unsafe and just plain evil. You pay with money you have and you pay a fixed price per month for the service -- no transaction costs. If you want to sell stuff to the world, please support payment gateways that are not evil and as insecure as, well .. a credit card, would actually be the example. Companies smart enough to allow people in nothern-europe to actually pay: Valve, Apple. Companies dumb enough not to: EA, Google. Who is selling online and who is not? Newsflash: If your sales numbers are less in Northern-Europe than they are in the US, it's because you are either actively blocking those customers (region-locks or refusal to ship) or you are not accepting n-european payment gateways. Credit cards are the equivelant of saying 'i only want american customers and everybody else can go to hell'. Let's just hope your bussiness is viable enough in just the US to be this ignorant.
- shiven 12y ago
  Why are credit cards 'evil'? Honest question. I mean they don't go spend themselves, are protected 100% against fraud (in the US at least) and if paid in full every month, cost nothing to the card holder. If anything, it is not a company's fault that Northern Europe has social/cultural hang-ups for a mode of payment!
  - romaniv 12y ago
    Because credit card system is not sustainable without various hidden fees, overdrafts, default rates and so on.
    - middleclick 12y ago
      Is it? I have never paid any hidden fee, or overdrafts. Set a reminder for every fifteen days, pump up the credit card and everything sails smoothly.

riquito 12y ago

I suspect that the two SSD are on different levels. Linode has higher standards. I don't know if the following benchmarks are real, but if it is we're talking about really different hardware (780 Mb/s vs 250 Mb/s) http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/2424-linode-2gb-ssd-linode http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean Maybe someone with both accounts can do a quick benchmark to verify or deny this data.

scottlinux 12y ago
Those are accurate numbers. https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=10960#p63254 https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=10960#p63254
btreecat 12y ago
This could be something I am interested in testing. I just migrated to DO, however I kept a small credit on Linode hoping they introduced cheaper plans.

Sir_Cmpwn 12y ago

I also appreciate the fact that Linode hasn't deprecated Arch Linux images like DO has. DO also seems to be pretty bad at listening to users.