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Wrong. They have a ton of network problems and also the nodes get rebooted entirely too often.
Just Yesterday morning: is UP again at 08/12/2012 07:15:50PM, after 17m of downtime.
I have to agree that Linode is great. They may be pricey but I had a VPS with them for about six months. I only had to reboot the VPS once after I had initially set it up (needed to install some updates). But other than that the VPS was up 100% of the time.
Seconded.
Problem is that non-technical support seems to suck.
By "non-technical" you mean what? Support for non-technical customers? It's an unmanaged service after all. Or support like billing? I recently had a billing issue (my fault) solved in minutes late on a Sunday night. Can't complain about that.
Things like "where do I go to just talk to a human being and get a response from them on my issue". Such as in this case.
did you use the micro instance?
@skirtTight
I've got a few "micro" and "small" ones and the performance is pretty poor, so I've had to buy their other products to compensate.
I was wondering when someone would link to that.
Lets consider, shall we?
Some providers would have found that sufficient grounds for termination. Linode didn't. They null-routed. And at the end of the day, we've only heard one side of that story, haven't we?
Micro instances limit you to short burts, while a small one has a dedicated cpu core assigned to you.
Indeed. It's not Low End however.
Eh. Nearly all of the providers I host with nullroute. I have only had a termination for DDoS once and that was because there literally was not a capability to handle DDoS (this was with IPXCore back at Atjeu).
Additionally, the biggest problem in the Linode story was not the suspension, but the total lack of cooperation from the support department. You were asking what I meant with non-technical support - that's what.
That in itself is a red flag.
Gonna have to pay more than lowend for true reliability. It's not something IMO you can ever get with just 1 server (however some providers will be much better than others), you'll need redundancy.
It's actually pretty cheap when you need more than 2 instances.
Plus they offer amazing disk space which happens to be reliable and not abused.
Exept their bandwidth HOLY CRAP I HATE THOSE PRICES 0.10 per outgoing gb is a total ripoff
Perfect for a sql server
I'd go with Linode. It's worth every cent.
@xtreamServers with their pricing... Every Dollar.
You get the idea xD
I personally would much rather pay a bit extra for higher performance.
Thanks for the positive mention
I've made my commitment to under $15/m services, and I notice that expectations in this market are usually unrealistically high or pathetically low. I think the real difference only has to be that these high end companies are using the expensive industry standards to achieve higher quality (when actually offered as implied, I'm sure many of them aren't offering a darn thing more than the rest of us), while the low end market should be focused on creative solutions that achieve similar results for far less. Often these are prone to more errors in the short term (depending on just how "creative" they are), we're not hiring a specialist to come in and demo $100,000 equipment for us and train our "employees." A lot of things can be done to achieve quality for less, and in this market I want to observe my failures and creatively solve them.
What ends up happening when we do this is that we keep the big companies on their toes. If we can match a $10,000 solution for $50, they have to learn to compete. That is my opinion on what the low price market philosophy should be, not just a way to make a quick buck off a bunch of cheap people, but a way to push the industry forward and hold it accountable.