King Size Linodes Now Available

Hmmm, these prices aren't that competitive with dedicated servers.<p>$479 will get you a dual-quad core dedicated with 16GB of ram these days. Even the lower end ones (2880MB) you can rent a 4GB SoftLayer box for the same price.

I get AWS, AWS is scale on demand + multiple datacenters. I get the lower linode pricing levels, they're a good deal.<p>The large ones make no sense to me. If you're paying monthly for a bigass machine then linode is way overpriced vs. dedicated. If you need to scale up really quick then linode won't work because they bill monthly. They have redundant DCs but if one got knocked out I imagine there'd be a scramble to use all the available ones if a DC went down.

Now you can run more than one Rails app on your server!

What keeps me coming back to Linode is the administration interface / console.<p>The Plesk, cPanel and Virtuozzo consoles provided to customers by other VPS hosting companies are horrible in comparison.<p>Slicehost's RubyOnRails based interface is too simple and doesn't provide anywhere near the functionality that Linode provides.

Awesome additions, shame the bandwidth doesn't go up proportionally but tops out at 2GB, but we can't always have everything :)<p>Linode still rule.<p>edit: Oops, meant 2TB

I use Linode for some of my lower end services<p>But what happens when your application requirements don't scale as a power of 2 ??<p>I need a low powered box but with 1TB of storage. 1TB storage is not even a possibility with any of the King Sizes. Amazon S3 at 1TB would be to slow, as there are many many documents all being randomly fetched.<p>I guess I have to go with Colo/Softlayer unless HN friends have some better suggestions??

The blog post or signup form should really mention that the trailing number is the amount of RAM, in MiB, for the node, and that larger nodes get proportionately more CPU as well (assuming that's true).<p>Unless you back up to the home page, the charts on the blog post and signup form make it look like the only advantage from (say) 5760 to 14400 is plus-384GB of HD space for $480/month. You can't even click from the node-selector on the signup form to mode details about the nodes.