I’ll be sad to see it go. I always felt like the Linode brand itself stood in the way of what it could be, but it also made it what it was. It never seemed an inviting brand to the average person, its

Indeed it is the end of an era. Linode is one of my favourite VPS hosts. Their resilient disk storage layer and ability to quickly clone and migrate VPS from one host node to another at a click of a b

maybe it's mostly known among those who remember Linode's heyday, and maybe they estimated that it's not a huge share of the current customer base after all.

Is it really sad? They were/is brand which refused to modernize, innovate. DO, Vultr expanded, adapted to market and their niches. Linode missed chance and was pushed out from that segment. And before

Akamai announced they're retiring the Linode brand:

But you OVH, Digital Ocean, and Linode were the top three offenders.

ps. How Linode DDOS protection about? over 40G?

I am currently using that one right now, but I am looking for different alternative as BlueVPS is based on OVH datacenter. Since I will be using for tunneling, some hosting is blocking from OVH datace

If you're learning about setting up a VPS to provide basic hosting too, then take a good look at the Linode tutorials... the concepts pretty much apply to any VPS service (within reason, obviously Lin

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* Update - more locations benchmarked -

Linode's Fremont location uses HE data center, but I'm not sure about the IPs and network.

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OVH 15.3MB/sToronto, Canada Linode 14.7MB/sToronto, Canada DigitalOceanToronto, Canada Vultr 27.3MB/sToronto, Canada Softlayer 16

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Now, on to Webhorizon

I'm certainly not the only one who needed to find a replacement for NexusBytes's (now largely dead, it seems) VPS. So I was looking around and got myself a couple of (purchased normally) VPS from pro…

Dropping all traffic from ColoCrossing, DediPath, OVH, M247, QuadraNet, China, India, and Hetzner (as well as any provider offering free trials or free credit) basically reduces abuse to 0. Listed the