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Free Linode!! 1 GB Ram, 48 GB Disk, 2TB BW, No CC Required - But there is a catch!
So what's the Catch? it's only good for 4 hours.. But if you have been meaning to try out Linode here is your chance!
Sign up is pretty easy, go to www.linode.com under "create free account" fill in your email, username and password. No billing detail required, then check your email and follow the link.. that's all.
Quite a few Locations to pick from, of course I picked Tokyo! never had a VPS there.
Tokyo, JP
London, UK
Newark, NJ
Atlanta, GA
Dallas, TX
Fremont, CA
Some Specs: (had to stop at leaseweb as it was taking too long)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
Number of cores : 8
CPU frequency : 2600.030 MHz
Total amount of ram : 987 MB
Total amount of swap : 127 MB
System uptime : 6 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 26.2MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 3.90MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 7.58MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 56.6MB/s
# dd if=/dev/zero of=iotest bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync && rm -fr iotest
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 15.1027 s, 71.1 MB/s
just incase @rm_ is interested.
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1024 | md5sum
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.18156 s, 337 MB/s
Thanked by 1DarioX
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Comments
Just long enough to trash the IP and walk away!
Which means a free trial for 4 hours?
Hopefully people will be courteous, so the next guy gets a chance at trying out the service, instead of them closing it!
Yes, you can take it for a spin for 4 hrs.
71MB/sec EWWW
Yes, we have been quite spoiled at LET/LEB
Well, no one is really forcing you?
Ok Doughy, we will leave it at that then.
At least DO used to offer it for 6 hours.
And looks like Linode have banned my ISP, oh well
Did not know DO offered a trial..
They used to, but stopped because of abuse. Linode seem to have blocked every disposable email provider under the sun though.
Hotmail works.
I read somewhere if you use caps, might help pass detection.. [email protected]. not sure if it works or not..
As for DO for $5 they normally give you a $20 credit so it's probably worth it to just sign up, DO has come in handy quite a few times..
Ok so I just switched to Centos 6.2 and the DD seems worst..
Considering you thanked @jarland 's post saying "TRASH THE IP"... Just kidding. :P
Tokyo serverbear http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2013/11/09/HLIjAT9dFtzwMgbK
50-100MB/s is fine and was good until the SSD market started to catch up. right now those speeds are unacceptable and thats why I switched over to Ramnode
they've sent me a ton of $50 free credit offers since I left them but I never take em up on it
Why is not longer good ? Except busy databases, almost anything else should do fine with 30-40 MB/s.
I am doing video encoding on some 30 MB/s old laptop ide drive at home and copying over the network is not hindered by the disk speed either even when is busy doing other things.
yeah thats why I said 50-100MB/s is fine
I was talking about performance per $. fast random access times of SSD's blows a new life to web sites
Websites on Linux servers have always been as smooth as SSDs because of the smart read cache and the only time it writes is on user uploads and FTP upload. Databases like MySQL have their own RAM caches for read AND writes. So really, nothing changed, except for the fact databases run a itty bit faster and use a little less RAM...
Linux doesnt cache everything.And VPS's doesnt has enough RAM to cache everything anyways. Static content such as images will be served faster on SSD's because of fast random access times.
Otherwise whats the point of using SSD's
No, but the frequently-accessed content is cached according to available ram and can make a huge difference.
This works much better on Xen or KVM than on OpenVz. With OpenVz, memory caching is done at the node level, so your VPS is competing with other VPSs. On Xen/KVM your memory is your memory.
It's why my preferring hosting platform is Xen PV. No need for full virtualization, but full use of assigned memory.
A 1024MB Linode:
I miss my linode
linode not worth the $$$
Tokyo
Just found the message in my email, seems they have monitoring for disk I/O.. pretty nice I think
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What a old news?
nice
$20 for 1GB