Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 590KB/s

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 1.85MB/s

@Francisco, good recommendation about the Linode test file.

When all else fails, use linodes test file for pulls.

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 7.23MB/s

(Quote)

Free FTP backup, hetzner doing it for a long time. Hosted DNS? My hosting and linode doing it.

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 5.84MB/s

Back in the loser's game? Linode is laughing all the way to the bank with higher prices. They have a business plan that is extremely successful. They have good support and the only downtime is general

I don't think Linode really does "by the hour" flex up/down. You can get a VPS provisioned instantly but you pay for a month. If you turn it off, you get credit.

Linode ??

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 4.68MB/s

I know there is some sarcasm in there, just not "getting it" right off. Linode is friggen huge, if I had even 1% of their customers I could retire, so 0.001% sitting here at LET bit

Exactly what people have been giving Linode shit for doing for years.

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 5.87MB/s

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 10.6MB/s

It's an OK move, but they lag behind a lot on RAM. RAM is so cheap nowadays. If it were me, I would have tripled or quadrupled the RAM rather than the disk space. With 20$/2GB Linode would be in the g

Download speed from Linode, Atlanta GA: 7.26MB/s

http://blog.linode.com/2012/12/14/storage-increased-by-20/

might also try using axel accelerator http://axel.alioth.debian.org/ instead of wget as wget is single threaded connection while axel is multi-threaded/connection based so guaranteed to max out what …