First you called us a SCAM out of nowhere; then you made up some stuff about our Linode benchmark and now you are trying to put words in our mouth that we did not say.

My Linode 512 is still going strong.

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@rm_ for $10 I'll probably get 1GB RAM box from cool providers like BuyVM, Hostigation, KiloServe etc. I don't want $20 512MB box from Linode or Gandi at the same level of performance and reliability.

If I wanted an expensive VPS I know where to go (Linode, Gandi). And IMO the sweetest spot of affordable yet non-oversold offer is around $4-$5 for 256-512MB, so LEB is perfectly right with its upper

It's a no-brainer to install LAMP, WordPress, MySQL, VPN, etc., etc. on a 2GB server. Just head on over to http://www.howtoforge.com or http://library.linode.com. The challenge is doing it all on 256M

@drmike -- the last offer was in fact from 123com. I have now restored the backup to another VPS I got (a Linode from Fremont which I was about to throw away due to recent issues there), and pointed C

Honestly, I will continue paying for a VPS at linode or slicehost just so I can keep using their DNS services for the rest of my boxes.

I want to clarify that I was recommending Linode's excellent library at http://library.linode.com as a resource rather than endorsing Linode itself.

First off I second LongShot's recommendation of Linode. If you want a VPS for hosting client websites in a production environment then you won't find much better.

http://library.linode.com/

Pinging tokyo1.linode.com [106.187.33.12] with 32 bytes of data:

Yet, every time I find a good deal and look up their TOS, it's always disallows IRC. I used to be on Linode but I'm trying to cut down on the monthly bill - hence the search. Ideally Xen/KVM because I

14 97 ms 101 ms 98 ms tokyo1.linode.com [106.187.33.12]

21 183 ms 182 ms 182 ms tokyo1.linode.com [106.187.33.12]

user@COMPAQ:~$ ping tokyo1.linode.com

Daniel-Smiths-MacBook-Pro:~ Daniel$ traceroute tokyo1.linode.com

2 62-233-127-181.as20860.net (62.233.127.181) 1.135 ms 1.145 ms 1.269 ms 3 ae0-135.lon25.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.74.225) 1.088 ms 1.075 ms 1.061 ms 4 xe-0-3-0.nyc20.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.186.209

@david reverse traceroute could contain the answer, perhaps it goes via USA on the path back to you. But to obtain such a trace you will need to run it on a machine on the other end, and target your o

PING tokyo1.linode.com (106.187.33.12): 56 data bytes