Linode vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr for $5/month KVM VPS plan benchmark comparison results are in https://community.centminmod.com/threads/10437/

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This is why they dropped to $5 I suspect, Linode are Linode though, they will recognise weakness and market changes and evolve.

For people which more or less had only linode some 7-8 years ago, this is a blast from the past and a cue to revisit their nostalgia place, however, they are far from being unique, the best and so on.

Please state it with more details . Linode has a hours billing which most low end providers don't have. Clients have to make their machine running with nothing once they don't need the service

regarding the topic Linode $5 isnt a game changer.

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With the price people pay for 1 linode, i get an array of redundant storage and aggregated bandwidth, at least 2x the CPU power, 4 locations (and IPs, even though I dont need them), what more would I

I have already got Vultr and DO instance and they are working well but I need to backup at other providers. I love Linode and Amazon but their snapshot pricing is pretty high.

Speaking of websites from the 90's, I love these guys and they're cheaper than even the $5 linode offer:

Well, a lot of these "cloud" providers are swimming in investors' money and not really turning a profit. I'm not sure about Linode specifically, but they seem to feel threatened by L

I think it is more likely the other way around, I think it is the nightmare that other providers are creating for Linode that has pushed them to do this.

Maybe I wasn't around in the grand old days of Linode, so can someone explain the difference? DO seems to have everything a midrange cloud user would want.

That's because Linode didn't have the $5 plan. This will change now, to the point of why even bother with DO or more obscure names such as Vultr, when there's the $5 Linode.

Obviously no host is going to call themselves expensive. That Linode was expensive compared to LEB's was obvious by looking at the numbers.

Whose idea? I don't recall Linode ever saying that -- just random people on LET.

Linode helpfully offered $5 1G VPSes today, so why not try a pair: one for virtualmin/webmin and one for vesta. Never used either product previously and I figured I'd just dive right in rather than r

It's been several years since I purchased my first Linode w/ 512MB RAM for 20 bucks......They are one of the best hosting providers and are continuing to work wonders.

And to make @impossiblystupid argument invalid... Linode is known for allowing customer to test plans for free for a few hours... So... yeh, do the math.

I think the idea was that Linode was quite expensive compared to LET hosts: costing more was a downside, but an upside was that the higher price of admission kept (some) abusers away. Now they've got