Welcome to 2014 Linode, you are a little late.

Because spec always determines performance? I bet Linode are not using the cheapest desktop grade SSD's that you will find in most providers boxes, the list goes on to be honest.

Linode already has this distro, great.

http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/25632/the-new-linode-cloud-ssds-double-ram-much-more#latest

Memory will get double, all nodes switch to SSD. so the smallest plan will have 2GB memory and 20GB SSD disk. That sounds nice.

For comparison with a Linode at Tokyo (Image)

I can't see my old linode.

Wondering how they would handle 10gbps attacks on a linode box, now that it theoretically can receive 40gbps.

Linode doesn't even need it. My non-SSD linode gets 750MB/s + running everyone's favorite Linux command.

Wonder if DigitalOcean lowers prices or bumps up specs now. The main reason to go with DO over Linode was price. I would never use the $20 and up DO plans when I can get equal or better on Linode.

Linode will retain the $20 minimum entry point. But in the future you'll be able to divide your resources, e.g., 2 x 1GB servers. Like a few providers are doing now...

Second, it's impossible hard to make money on a $5/month VPS given the amount of support Linode promises.

Their support and infrastructure is not close to being comparable to DO. You will never see the five dollar Linode plan. They won't race to the bottom and they deliver a premium product. You startup i

Nice to see someone gets it. Linode has stated (informally) on several occasions that they're not interested in the sub-$20/month market.

Plus with lower end cost providers like ramnode, do, and vultr- maybe they really just don't want to play in that market and let those companies do what they do best while linode choses a different pa

That's a lot of course even for linode, ~ 200 thousands users per month on $20/m plan.

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 18.9MB/s

But as it stands, there'll be just a continuous drain of cost-conscious customers to DO et al. So not clear what's worse for Linode, have a customer who pays less, or to lose them completely.

Considering this is Linode, then they should be able to profit from their existing customer base as well as their positive reputation, so yes - they should ROI in one year.

Does linode has snapshot feature like digitalocean?