Linode is my top choice for hosting, but lately I've been tinkering on a project that needs a lot of disk, and it's hard to find good options there. On AWS every dimension scales independently, but with Linode I can't buy disk without buying CPU and RAM too. When I had a similar need a few years ago, I wound up renting a dedicated server, where even the cheapest came with 2TB or so. I'd love to just stick with Linode, but I need an option to add disk!
I used to use Linode for some projects, and really appreciated their speed and server quality, which seemed better than Digital Ocean at the time.<p>But after using them for 12-18 months, and losing several days of data due to the 2015 DDoS, and reading about more and more security issues, I switched back to DO and haven't looked back. The performance differences aren't noticeable to me, and I'd rather have my hosting through a company with a better security record than Linode.
PSA: If you're using the Linode API, the 2048 plan is now PlanID 2 and the new 1024 plan is now PlanID 1. The other PlanIDs were incremented by one as well. I wish they hadn't done that, but there it is.
I would love to add a couple of gigs of RAM to an existing linode for a small monthly fee. But there's this dropdown on the "extras" page, "90 MB additional ram - $5.00 / mo", down to "360 MB additional ram - $20.00 / mo". Yes, those are MEGAbytes. As in, you can get a 4.36G/ram node for <i>twice the price</i> as a 4G/ram node. Very strange.
I recently switched from DigitalOcean to Linode and could easily shave off 20% bill. The migration of VM was much easier than I expected (use rsync - <a href="https://lowendbox.com/blog/how-to-migrate-a-hosted-server-in-5-easy-steps-with-rsync/" rel="nofollow">https://lowendbox.com/blog/how-to-migrate-a-hosted-server-in...</a>). My only complain is, I would like to take multiple manual backups even if it costed little extra.
Nice to see Linode stepping up again and competing hard with DO.<p>Other than the Christmas 2015 DDOS, I have never had any significant issues with Linode. Especially in the Dallas DC.
I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.
It would be really fascinating if you added GPU instances with GTX 1080 cards. These cards could allow you to make the prices much lower than those of AWS GPU instances that use K-80 and make it a perfect fit for Deep Learning applications that don't require double precision.
Is this a bold move by Linode, or am I the only Linode customer (7 years going) who chose them in part because they steered clear of the bottom of the market?
Some feedback: I've been using DO droplets since mid 2013, reliability is excellent, no unexpected reboots at all.<p>With the help of Ksplice the Ubuntu Server droplet has achieved 555 and 401 days uptime without downtime (could hang on a bit longer but later decided to reboot once every 3 months to address security concerns).<p>DO support has been responsive and friendly, DO keeps (slowly) delivering new features such as private network, Load Balacer etc. For existing $5/m DO users, I don't think it's worth the hassle to migrate to Linode (or Amazon Lightsail), the performance difference will be unnoticeable for most people's use cases (personal web hosting, strongSwan based IPsec VPN, etc.).<p>A good reference: <a href="https://joshtronic.com/2016/12/01/ten-dollar-showdown-linode-vs-digitalocean-vs-lightsail/" rel="nofollow">https://joshtronic.com/2016/12/01/ten-dollar-showdown-linode...</a><p>Will provide the feedback to DO and see if they can match the Linode offer (I am sure they will do something).
Maybe one day that ColdFusion atrocity of a control panel will be hurled into the sun and something better will take its place. Until then, yay, cheaper high-memory instances.<p>Redis appreciates it.
I'm really curious to what people plan on doing with such insane amounts of ram.<p>Maybe it's possible to scale with just RAM! Fire up a uWSGI + Flask and up the RAM as traffic increases.
AH! Linode! You used to have a $5/mo plan and you got rid of it. I found and switched to DO. I would have stuck with you but I only use it to mess about and 10$ was too steep.
If you make it $5 Canadian I'll switch back.
In the past they kept changing their pricing. I was paying for the smallest one (static site and a few prototypes) around $150/yr. Then they advertised that per-use would be mandatory and cheaper for everyone. I kept the site there barelly receiving any hit, using 0% of cpu and network. Endedup paying well over $250 after 12 monthly charges.