Not nearly as good as the last two birthdays. :)<p>2010's brought a massive RAM increase: <a href="http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-increase/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-inc...</a><p>2011's bumped disk space up 25%: <a href="http://blog.linode.com/2011/06/16/linode-turns-8-disk-space-25/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.linode.com/2011/06/16/linode-turns-8-disk-space-...</a>
It requires you to pay for service until the end of July first. And then you <i>may</i> get the credit (if you were fast enough). Seems like a so-so deal to me.
OVH is giving 10 000 (every day 100-500 ) servers for free to test new USA datacenter. I thinks its more valuable then linoide VPS <a href="http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usa_order_beta.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usa_order_beta.xml</a><p>Just follow OVH twitter
I'm a huge linode fan and I feel guilty for my reaction to this giveaway ... which just happens to be ... "meh". I guess they've gotten to a point where giving out free RAM increases is not a sustainable endeavor :\
I'm still amazed how quick people are to forget what happened with Linode.<p>Massive security issue (i.e. Bitcoin incident) where hackers got root access to any Linode VPS at the click of a button. Loyal customers were the last to hear about it (through their website no less) and absolutely no proper explanation was or has been given as to what happened, what was done about it and whether it will happen again.<p>You look at how Cloudflare handled their issue and it's night and day. Linode are one of the least transparent providers going around IMHO.