Linode $20 Digital Ocean - Free currently. MiniVPS £2 = $3.20 Ramnode $3.72 Directspace $15/yr = $1.25/m

Linode 512 on UK

have redundancy for critical services, amazon or Linode are not infallible either.

I'm just wondering how VPS providers offering foreign VPS like Linode's Japan region fix servers when HW fails or something.

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta, GA: 24.5MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta, GA: 7.91MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 10.5MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 550KB/s

linodeatl=$( wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.atlanta.linode.com/100MB-atlanta.bin 2>&1 | awk '/\/dev\/null/ {speed=$3 $4} END {gsub(/\(|\)/,"",speed); print speed}'

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, Japan: 4.26MB/s

Many hostings have free DNS hosting, like linode, DigitalOcean, Racespace etc.

Linode a "fairly large host" was hacked a few years ago, Customers credit card details, usernames and passwords were all out.

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 11.3MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 474KB/s

I think part of this has to do with the fact that there are (a) fewer customers per server on (most) more expensive hosts (like Linode and Rackspace), and (b) less of the 'buy a cheap host and throw i

Hacks can happen to anyone whether high end or low end.The main thing is to keep backups always.Even linode was hacked ,hostgator's thousands of server rooted and many more such news you can find.

@Liam I think that they are counting every instance ever created since they've started. If so, that number doesn't mean that much. As far as challenging Linode and AWS, well, everything is not about p

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5954415

Nice! No pulling a Linode in the EU!

Here's a benchmark of the VPS VZ-64MB offer.