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Linode adds datacenter in Europe

77 points by drewr 17y ago

JshWright 17y ago
https://www.linode.com/avail.cfm https://www.linode.com/avail.cfm Better hurry to snap up those available Linode14400's.
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davidw 17y ago
Interesting. Being a cautious sort, though, I think I'll wait and see how they weather their first few failures there before getting one.
- mnordhoff 17y ago
  What's the difference? The data center employees handle physical stuff. It's not like the Linode HQ is close to Atlanta, Dallas or Fremont, either.
  - davidw 17y ago
    Well, that's the theory. Better let someone else take on Murphy to determine if it's true in practice.
dnsworks 17y ago
This is pretty awesome. I've got a few VPS's with linode at their 3 other datacenters, I'm glad to be able to open up one here for a new monitoring node. I think they're the most well-run VPS provider I've dealt with. Congrats to Tom & Chris on this one.
anr 17y ago
It would be great if they added a datacenter in South America (eg in São Paulo, Brazil).
julio_the_squid 17y ago
I've heard a lot of good things about Linode, but I can't say I'm thrilled at the moment. I have a site partially hosted on Linode and the Dallas datacenter has had two failures in the past month, during our busiest time of the day. People going to our site at noon and the page not finishing because the image server is down (with all our ads) is clearly a very bad situation. It's not really a sign of reliability how I can't even get their blog to load.... It's been loading the entire time I was writing this and I've only received the page title so far! What's going on over there?
- nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
  Interestingly enough for anecdotes, I've had a VPS running from the Dallas datacenter, and haven't had any outages (that I've known about) since I signed up a year ago. I've been more impressed with Linode that I even was with Slicehost.
  - julio_the_squid 17y ago
    I have another server with Slicehost, and it's been down once in the past year. Overall I'm somewhat more please with Slicehost. These are the two linode issues that affected us: http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4822&sid=1c23820e39c7aca8cdaa0d23169973dc http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4822&sid=1c... http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4908&sid=1c23820e39c7aca8cdaa0d23169973dc http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4908&sid=1c...
- bdonlan 17y ago
  Sounds like there may be routing trouble between your ISP and the Linode datacenter (unless you're getting a _lot_ of reports from users). During the downtime, get a traceroute to your server and report it in a ticket. You might also want to try requesting a migration to another datacenter, where you might have better luck.
  - julio_the_squid 17y ago
    Both times I've had issues it was definitely not my connection. One time the disk went out on our cluster, and they also 'took the opportunity' to apply an upgrade. The next time it was 'network problems' at the datacenter. Both of these were reported on their status (except the second time, I couldn't even access their forum/status pages).
rimantas 17y ago
Already migrated. Less than three minutes from submitting the ticket I got the response and started the process. It took some time to get disks copied, but overall everything went flawlessly. I am impressed.
- streety 17y ago
  A similar experience here. Submitted the ticket and received email notification of a reply 3 minutes later. Migrating 12GB looks like it's going to take about 90 minutes. Can't fault them so far.
drewr 17y ago
I should have noted in the title that it's in London, UK.
mtarnovan 17y ago
I really don't understand why anyone would want a VPS with 1.4GB RAM for the same price as a 12GB RAM Quad-Core dedicated server. (for example from hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix/Produktmatrix http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... - we've been using servers from this provider for 3 years and we're pretty satisfied so far).
- conflux0 17y ago
  It isn't the same price though. There is a setup fee of 150 euros and a monthly rate of 70 euros. This is in comparison to a rate of 80 usd a month with no setup fee. There is a fairly large difference in cost there.
  - mtarnovan 17y ago
    Oh come on. Linode 2880 is ~100 EUR/month and you get far less computing power for your money. You can also ask for a KVM over IP console to be attached to your server (for free for 2 hours) though this would only be needed when you have an emergecy (i.e. machine not reachable over SSH). There is no bandwith limit (you're capped to 10 Mbit if you exceed 2TB/month). Seems like a pretty good deal to me.
    - daleharvey 17y ago
      and how many people use the 2880 plan? I would guess > 90% of linodes users are on the $20pm plan, and look towards other areas when they start growing anywhere near 2880
    - jedsmith 17y ago
      From that description, KVM over IP doesn't sound free to me -- it looks like 149€ to set up and 19€ a month. Furthermore, even if what you say is true, what is the benefit of going with a provider who nickel and dimes you over something as simple as out-of-band console? $dayjob has 24x7 free out-of-band console access, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a VPS provider that doesn't. The only way these dedicated providers keep margin as they do is by shanking you on little things like KVM over IP ($220 to set it up?). You are wayyyyy better off sharing the cost of a colo'd 1U with others to offset your cost, in almost every case.
milestinsley 17y ago
It's hard to find a good (reasonably priced) VPS provider in the UK. This is fantastic news. I've been considering moving from The Rackspace Cloud to Linode for a while now. Just signed up. My average ping is now 11ms!

77 points by drewr 17y ago

https://www.linode.com/avail.cfm https://www.linode.com/avail.cfm Better hurry to snap up those available Linode14400's.

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davidw 17y ago

Interesting. Being a cautious sort, though, I think I'll wait and see how they weather their first few failures there before getting one.

mnordhoff 17y ago
What's the difference? The data center employees handle physical stuff. It's not like the Linode HQ is close to Atlanta, Dallas or Fremont, either.
- davidw 17y ago
  Well, that's the theory. Better let someone else take on Murphy to determine if it's true in practice.

dnsworks 17y ago

This is pretty awesome. I've got a few VPS's with linode at their 3 other datacenters, I'm glad to be able to open up one here for a new monitoring node. I think they're the most well-run VPS provider I've dealt with. Congrats to Tom & Chris on this one.

anr 17y ago

It would be great if they added a datacenter in South America (eg in São Paulo, Brazil).

julio_the_squid 17y ago

I've heard a lot of good things about Linode, but I can't say I'm thrilled at the moment. I have a site partially hosted on Linode and the Dallas datacenter has had two failures in the past month, during our busiest time of the day. People going to our site at noon and the page not finishing because the image server is down (with all our ads) is clearly a very bad situation. It's not really a sign of reliability how I can't even get their blog to load.... It's been loading the entire time I was writing this and I've only received the page title so far! What's going on over there?

nuclear_eclipse 17y ago
Interestingly enough for anecdotes, I've had a VPS running from the Dallas datacenter, and haven't had any outages (that I've known about) since I signed up a year ago. I've been more impressed with Linode that I even was with Slicehost.
- julio_the_squid 17y ago
  I have another server with Slicehost, and it's been down once in the past year. Overall I'm somewhat more please with Slicehost. These are the two linode issues that affected us: http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4822&sid=1c23820e39c7aca8cdaa0d23169973dc http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4822&sid=1c... http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4908&sid=1c23820e39c7aca8cdaa0d23169973dc http://www.linode.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4908&sid=1c...
bdonlan 17y ago
Sounds like there may be routing trouble between your ISP and the Linode datacenter (unless you're getting a _lot_ of reports from users). During the downtime, get a traceroute to your server and report it in a ticket. You might also want to try requesting a migration to another datacenter, where you might have better luck.
- julio_the_squid 17y ago
  Both times I've had issues it was definitely not my connection. One time the disk went out on our cluster, and they also 'took the opportunity' to apply an upgrade. The next time it was 'network problems' at the datacenter. Both of these were reported on their status (except the second time, I couldn't even access their forum/status pages).

rimantas 17y ago

Already migrated. Less than three minutes from submitting the ticket I got the response and started the process. It took some time to get disks copied, but overall everything went flawlessly. I am impressed.

streety 17y ago
A similar experience here. Submitted the ticket and received email notification of a reply 3 minutes later. Migrating 12GB looks like it's going to take about 90 minutes. Can't fault them so far.

drewr 17y ago

I should have noted in the title that it's in London, UK.

mtarnovan 17y ago

I really don't understand why anyone would want a VPS with 1.4GB RAM for the same price as a 12GB RAM Quad-Core dedicated server. (for example from hetzner: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-produktmatrix/Produktmatrix http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr... - we've been using servers from this provider for 3 years and we're pretty satisfied so far).

conflux0 17y ago
It isn't the same price though. There is a setup fee of 150 euros and a monthly rate of 70 euros. This is in comparison to a rate of 80 usd a month with no setup fee. There is a fairly large difference in cost there.
- mtarnovan 17y ago
  Oh come on. Linode 2880 is ~100 EUR/month and you get far less computing power for your money. You can also ask for a KVM over IP console to be attached to your server (for free for 2 hours) though this would only be needed when you have an emergecy (i.e. machine not reachable over SSH). There is no bandwith limit (you're capped to 10 Mbit if you exceed 2TB/month). Seems like a pretty good deal to me.
  - daleharvey 17y ago
    and how many people use the 2880 plan? I would guess > 90% of linodes users are on the $20pm plan, and look towards other areas when they start growing anywhere near 2880
  - jedsmith 17y ago
    From that description, KVM over IP doesn't sound free to me -- it looks like 149€ to set up and 19€ a month. Furthermore, even if what you say is true, what is the benefit of going with a provider who nickel and dimes you over something as simple as out-of-band console? $dayjob has 24x7 free out-of-band console access, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a VPS provider that doesn't. The only way these dedicated providers keep margin as they do is by shanking you on little things like KVM over IP ($220 to set it up?). You are wayyyyy better off sharing the cost of a colo'd 1U with others to offset your cost, in almost every case.

milestinsley 17y ago

It's hard to find a good (reasonably priced) VPS provider in the UK. This is fantastic news. I've been considering moving from The Rackspace Cloud to Linode for a while now. Just signed up. My average ping is now 11ms!