3 ms·

Amazing effort by Linode that they keep striving to improve and have pushed up a gear to new features unlike years ago but Linode has the storage problem where

by machbio 11y ago

Amazing effort by Linode that they keep striving to improve and have pushed up a gear to new features unlike years ago but Linode has the storage problem where they only offer SSD disk storage and there is nothing comparable to AWS S3 or even their SSD disk rates are not comparable to EBS - I do understand that Linode's SSD are better performance wise but when I do not need the performance I have no other options.. There is a bigger problem with Linodes is the Linode Images[1], how do they expect the disk images to be less than 2GB and here goes there policy on images- "There is no additional charge to store images for Linode users, with a limit of 2GB per Image, with a total of 10GB total Image storage and 100 Images per account." [1]https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/linode-images https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/linode-images

akerl_ 11y ago
I've had no problems using Linode Images with that as the limit. I use it to pre-bake some package updates that take a while so that I can use the image to provision new systems: https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/image-build.rb https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/image-bu... https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/deploy.rb https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/deploy.r...
drzaiusapelord 11y ago
>nlike years ago but Linode has the storage problem where they only offer SSD disk storage Are you confusing them with Digital Ocean? Their SSD option is fairly new, and much, much later than DO's offerings. Linode announced offering SSDs in April of 2014. 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-...
- jsight 11y ago
  AFAIK, linode currently only offers SSD storage. I agree that this can be a problem for some use-cases. Vultr is often a better alternative for people who require large storage with lighter performance requirements.
HappyTypist 11y ago
Linode Images aren't intended to store data or function as a backup. (They have a separate paid feature for that). It's to help you provision new linodes. I do echo your thoughts on that they should offer a HDD-backed storage instance plan, however.

by machbio 11y ago

akerl_ 11y ago

I've had no problems using Linode Images with that as the limit. I use it to pre-bake some package updates that take a while so that I can use the image to provision new systems: https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/image-build.rb https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/image-bu... https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/deploy.rb https://github.com/dock0/vm_config/blob/master/meta/deploy.r...

drzaiusapelord 11y ago

>nlike years ago but Linode has the storage problem where they only offer SSD disk storage Are you confusing them with Digital Ocean? Their SSD option is fairly new, and much, much later than DO's offerings. Linode announced offering SSDs in April of 2014. 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-...

jsight 11y ago
AFAIK, linode currently only offers SSD storage. I agree that this can be a problem for some use-cases. Vultr is often a better alternative for people who require large storage with lighter performance requirements.

HappyTypist 11y ago

Linode Images aren't intended to store data or function as a backup. (They have a separate paid feature for that). It's to help you provision new linodes. I do echo your thoughts on that they should offer a HDD-backed storage instance plan, however.