Comments on: Linode are Consistently Awesome http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=linode-are-consistently-awesome A number-pimping side project from the valleys in *NEW* upside-down flavour. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Andy http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/#comment-7817 Andy Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:48:50 +0000 http://r3dux.org/?p=6397#comment-7817 Oh, and a couple more stats in case you’re interested, IO is anywhere from 170->420MB/s, download is 15MB/s->60MB/s.

]]> By: Andy http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/#comment-7816 Andy Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:47:26 +0000 http://r3dux.org/?p=6397#comment-7816 Neither does BuyVM, they’re actually well known for this reason. The main difference is that Linode runs their company as a business, while BuyVM staffers do it because they believe everyone should have access to a VPS, and enjoy what they do. They have over 10k clients and 6 staff members, getting away with it mainly because it’s an unmanaged VPS system. Tickets are responded to within 24 hours, though. The people who work at these companies have been managing servers for a very long time, and the only reason I’m calling out BuyVM in this post is because they’re leading the VPS technology world (they’ve been the first to introduce OVZ features that no one else has, such as supporting Ubuntu 12.04 on the release day, while every other provider had issues). My uptime regularly goes beyond 100 days, and this is with checks every minute, compared to the (I’m assuming) free version of the software you’re using, which checks every 30 minutes. If my VPS goes down (due to network connectivity), it goes down for ~2 minutes on average. Different strokes for different folks, as you said. But I would at least try a BuyVM server so you can try both services, and see for yourself as I did.

]]> By: r3dux http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/#comment-7815 r3dux Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:54:14 +0000 http://r3dux.org/?p=6397#comment-7815 I disagree.

Linode don’t oversell their capacity. What you’re paying for isn’t purely the VPS, it the entire package of the VPS + highly trained professional engineers + staff capacity to deal with issues promptly and efficiently, or take it up the chain to an engineer if the problem can’t be resolved straight away.

And get 3 cheap & wobbly VPS’ and replicate content across them? I’d rather not… ;)

It’s all horses for courses – but Linode have been exceptional for me, so I’m sticking with them.

]]> By: r3dux http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/#comment-7814 r3dux Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:47:52 +0000 http://r3dux.org/?p=6397#comment-7814 Thanks, definitely am! :-)

]]> By: Thomas Asaro http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/#comment-7813 Thomas Asaro Wed, 06 Jun 2012 19:43:27 +0000 http://r3dux.org/?p=6397#comment-7813 Glad to hear you are enjoying the service!

]]> By: Andy http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/#comment-7799 Andy Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:31:39 +0000 http://r3dux.org/?p=6397#comment-7799 Oh, and I forgot to mention that if you buy 2 (or 3, for near the price of a single linode), you’ll never have to worry about your uptime stats again, thanks to redundancy.

]]> By: Andy http://r3dux.org/2012/06/linode-are-consistently-awesome/#comment-7798 Andy Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:26:59 +0000 http://r3dux.org/?p=6397#comment-7798 You should really try http://buyvm.net, or https://hostigation.com… Linode is raking in the profits by overpricing their VPS’s.

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