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IMO Linode is a bit stable and better network route than Vultr. They are both great provider. Have clients on both company. Keep them at competition.
How? I've been using Linode throughout the years, network is better now thanks to Akamai. No features were removed, more locations were introduced. Yeah there was a price increase but this happened to other providers as well. What's your experience?
In my case, Vultr has the better location and network at the moment. Things can change at any time, though. Overall, I'm not sure who's best, but Akamai is in the CDN business, so it would figure they should specialize in good connectivity.
0 experience with akamai. Left linode the minute I received email that they have been acquired.
Price increase will be regular. And for me, corporate bullshit trying to sugarcoat price increases, simply does not work.
If akamai for you is OK - it is OK. After all, it is huge CDN company.
I used to have lots of cheap vps, and wrote failover scripts to sync and failover when one would go down.
$5/mo is the high end of the low end but still < $7/mo. At least that used to be the limit.
$5/month isn't too bad if it's your only vps. My thinking is quality over quantity. One good reliable server instead of lots of lesser ones.
I also have an $18/year rsync.net account for backups, but that's not really a vps.
Linode has been very reliable. I don't remember any outage for years. It's too early to tell with Vultr.
Current latency from home (PLDT Fibr, evening):
Speed test over wireguard to vps at Vultr Tokyo from 300/300 fiber.
Hmmm, I took a look and the optimal location for a VPN seems to be HK. Only 20ms away.
I guess the problem is that most well known providers don't really have a HK location, but I think the significant reduction in latency is entirely worth the extra hassle of having fewer value-add services.
Yes, Hong Kong would be a good location to try. Neither Linode or Vultr offer HK as a location, though. I'd have to see if there are any other reputable providers offering that location.
What changed with Linode since the Akamai merger?
How does Digital Ocean compare to Vultr and Linode?
Digital Ocean doesn't have as many locations, and nothing in Japan. I haven't tried it, but there's a guy in this thread that's used it a lot.
Linode used to be a private company and very tech-friendly, so a lot of us liked them for that. I guess it's a general distaste of being bought out by a big company.
I've got $250 credit for the first month with Vultr, so I spun up some $6 "High Frequency" vps. It comes with 32gb disk space instead of 25gb on the $5 regular plan. And a faster cpu.
Sometimes running "apt update" on the $5 vps takes a long time and the cpu maxes out at 100% during the update. So far it's instant on the HF vps. We'll see if it lasts.
Running a mariadb database backup (stopping service, copying files, starting service) takes about 8-9 seconds on the $5 vps and 2 seconds on the $6 HF vps.
The first HF vps I got was 3.2ghz. I tried a second and third and got 3.7ghz.
As someone who extensively uses both I'll say one thing about Linode.
If you have an issue don't expect a support response outside of working hours. Had a failure of a LKE master node, 18 hour response time.
I've since learnt that the only way to get a reasonable time to reply is to frist call their US number
Other than that, much of the technical side of Linode feels more stable. They have some problems, but they seem to be focussing more on "quality" (stability and size) over "quantity" (locations) than Vultr. Theres room for both, but depending on your needs "quantity" may do little for you.
I haven't needed Linode support very often, but a few times. I noticed even before Akamai bought them their support times had increased compared to their earlier days. Instead of a reply within the hour, it's a reply the next day.
One thing Linode does well today, that used to be a support ticket and manual process, is migrate a vps to a new location. You just select Migrate, and you enter a migration queue and it's all automated. They even moved my extra ipv6 block (new allocation for the new location of course).