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Linode introduces $5 instances

arpanjotarpanjot Member
edited February 2017 in General

https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and-5-linodes/

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  • 764664764664 Member

    For Japan servers, I'd say it's a good deal.

  • jimaekjimaek Member

    Already converted my $10 Tokyo to $5. I like it

  • vimalwarevimalware Member

    omg. it happened

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    1GB for $5/mo - nice. I figured they'd get there eventually.

    So for what I think of as the "three midmarkets," for $5/mo you get:

    • DO: 512MB RAM, 20GB disk
    • Vultr: 768MB RAM, 15GB disk
    • Linode: 1GB RAM, 20GB disk
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  • cloudcloud Member

    It's about time. Maybe a reaction to Amazon entering the market segment with Lightsail?

  • cnbeiningcnbeining Member

    75Mb/s network?

    With Linode we can say this is guaranteed, but this is slower than my home connection... Now it's getting hard to decide since DO and Vultr would have better network.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    cloud said: Maybe a reaction to Amazon entering the market segment with Lightsail?

    That was my first thought.

  • ClouviderClouvider Member, Patron Provider

    @cnbeining said:
    75Mb/s network?

    With Linode we can say this is guaranteed, but this is slower than my home connection... Now it's getting hard to decide since DO and Vultr would have better network.

    What do you need more for ? Higher bandwidth limit doesn't mean the network is better per se.

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  • FoxelVoxFoxelVox Member

    Does linode offer additional IPs?

  • cloudcloud Member

    @FoxelVox said:
    Does linode offer additional IPs?

    Yes, $0.0015/hr or $1/month (justification required).

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  • FoxelVoxFoxelVox Member

    @cloud said:

    @FoxelVox said:
    Does linode offer additional IPs?

    Yes, $0.0015/hr or $1/month (justification required).

    Thanks ;)

  • HxxxHxxx Member

    Usually not @FoxelVox.

    Now about Linode announcement. Super sexy. I'm wet.

  • cassacassa Member

    cnbeining said: 75Mb/s network?

    That was an error, corrected to 1000Mb/s now.

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  • HxxxHxxx Member

    Is now set to 1000. Check blog.

    @cnbeining said:
    75Mb/s network?

    With Linode we can say this is guaranteed, but this is slower than my home connection... Now it's getting hard to decide since DO and Vultr would have better network.

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  • filefile Member

    They changed things, now everything is a minimum 1000Mbps.

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @FoxelVox said:

    @cloud said:

    @FoxelVox said:
    Does linode offer additional IPs?

    Yes, $0.0015/hr or $1/month (justification required).

    Thanks ;)

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  • HxxxHxxx Member

    They are very strict with the IP's. I wonder what justification can you actually give when... SSL is no longer one. :)

  • tr1ckytr1cky Member

    So this is their answer to their strongest competitor BuyVM.

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  • cnbeiningcnbeining Member

    @Hxxx said:
    Is now set to 1000. Check blog.

    @cnbeining said:
    75Mb/s network?

    With Linode we can say this is guaranteed, but this is slower than my home connection... Now it's getting hard to decide since DO and Vultr would have better network.

    Heart attack........

    I do hope they can stand their quality after this price drop. When they say 125Mbps I know I can push to 125: but can I really do 1000Mbps at this price?

  • tr1ckytr1cky Member

    @cnbeining said:

    @Hxxx said:
    Is now set to 1000. Check blog.

    @cnbeining said:
    75Mb/s network?

    With Linode we can say this is guaranteed, but this is slower than my home connection... Now it's getting hard to decide since DO and Vultr would have better network.

    Heart attack........

    I do hope they can stand their quality after this price drop. When they say 125Mbps I know I can push to 125: but can I really do 1000Mbps at this price?

    Where should be the problem? All their nodes are 10gbps, you can use only 1TB anyways, it's not like DO where you could use 330TB (allthough they suspend you pretty fast if you intend to do so).

  • niknik Member, Host Rep

    @cnbeining said:

    @Hxxx said:
    Is now set to 1000. Check blog.

    @cnbeining said:
    75Mb/s network?

    With Linode we can say this is guaranteed, but this is slower than my home connection... Now it's getting hard to decide since DO and Vultr would have better network.

    Heart attack........

    I do hope they can stand their quality after this price drop. When they say 125Mbps I know I can push to 125: but can I really do 1000Mbps at this price?

    I would rather be able to push 1 Gbps than be limited at 75 Mbps all the time.

  • AbdussamadAbdussamad Member

    unix bench needed. would somebody please oblige?

  • LeeLee Veteran

    I think DO still have the edge in terms of overall features, but still a great thing.

  • FredQcFredQc Member

    I had some unused credits at Linode, so why not launch an $5 instance?

    [root@li583-252 ~]# wget x86.ca/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  2799.998 MHz
Total amount of ram : 989 MB
Total amount of swap :  MB
System uptime :   3 min,       
Download speed from CacheFly: 14.7MB/s 
Download speed from OVH, Beauharnois, Canada: 83.1MB/s 
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, Toronto, Canada: 68.8MB/s 
Download speed from ColoCrossing, Chicago, USA: 40.4MB/s 
Download speed from Choopa, Piscataway, USA: 28.6MB/s 
Download speed from Dacentec, Lenoir, USA: 56.7MB/s 
Download speed from Atlanta (10Gbps pipe), USA: 110MB/s 
Download speed from Wholesale internet, Kansas City, USA: 4.49MB/s 
Download speed from Volume Drive, Wilkes Barre, USA: 402KB/s 
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, Orlando, USA: 23.8MB/s 
Download speed from Incero, Dallas, USA: 32.2MB/s 
Download speed from Incero, Seatle, USA: 28.2MB/s 
Download speed from Atlantic.NET, San Francisco, USA: 24.2MB/s 
Download speed from QuadraNET, LA, USA: 497KB/s 
Download speed from OVH, Roubaix, FR: 7.87MB/s 
Download speed from Redstation, London, UK: 17.4MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Frankfurt, DE: 368KB/s 
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem: 25.7MB/s 
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 11.7MB/s 
Disk throughput - 1 time        : 151 MB/s
Disk throughput - 2 time        : 575 MB/s
Disk throughput - 3 time        : 569 MB/s
Average Disk throughput         : 431.667 MB/s

[root@li583-252 ~]# fio --name=rand-write --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --rw=randwrite --invalidate=1 --bsrange=4k:4k,4k:4k --size=512m --runtime=120 --time_based --do_verify=1 --direct=1 --group_reporting --numjobs=1
rand-write: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=32
fio-2.2.8
Starting 1 process
rand-write: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 512MB)
Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)] [100.0% done] [0KB/101.7MB/0KB /s] [0/26.9K/0 iops] [eta 00m:00s]
rand-write: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=4834: Tue Feb 14 20:54:35 2017
  write: io=11476MB, bw=97924KB/s, iops=24480, runt=120001msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=8180, avg=32.55, stdev=34.43
    clat (usec): min=4, max=9405, avg=1268.60, stdev=229.76
     lat (usec): min=75, max=9482, avg=1302.82, stdev=235.47
    clat percentiles (usec):
     |  1.00th=[  900],  5.00th=[ 1032], 10.00th=[ 1080], 20.00th=[ 1128],
     | 30.00th=[ 1160], 40.00th=[ 1192], 50.00th=[ 1224], 60.00th=[ 1256],
     | 70.00th=[ 1288], 80.00th=[ 1352], 90.00th=[ 1464], 95.00th=[ 1800],
     | 99.00th=[ 2096], 99.50th=[ 2192], 99.90th=[ 2608], 99.95th=[ 3088],
     | 99.99th=[ 3920]
    bw (KB  /s): min=62848, max=106376, per=100.00%, avg=97932.86, stdev=9334.38
    lat (usec) : 10=0.01%, 50=0.01%, 100=0.01%, 250=0.01%, 500=0.08%
    lat (usec) : 750=0.29%, 1000=2.72%
    lat (msec) : 2=95.11%, 4=1.79%, 10=0.01%
  cpu          : usr=8.25%, sys=83.38%, ctx=696477, majf=0, minf=10
  IO depths    : 1=0.1%, 2=0.1%, 4=0.1%, 8=0.1%, 16=0.1%, 32=100.0%, >=64=0.0%
     submit    : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     complete  : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.1%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0%
     issued    : total=r=0/w=2937742/d=0, short=r=0/w=0/d=0, drop=r=0/w=0/d=0
     latency   : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=32

Run status group 0 (all jobs):
  WRITE: io=11476MB, aggrb=97923KB/s, minb=97923KB/s, maxb=97923KB/s, mint=120001msec, maxt=120001msec

Disk stats (read/write):
  sda: ios=0/2932282, merge=0/989, ticks=0/319496, in_queue=316650, util=93.43%

[root@li583-252 ~]# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        20G  3.0G   16G  17% /
devtmpfs        494M     0  494M   0% /dev
tmpfs           495M     0  495M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           495M  7.6M  488M   2% /run
tmpfs           495M     0  495M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs            99M     0   99M   0% /run/user/0

[root@li583-252 ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
 Timing cached reads:   19632 MB in  2.00 seconds = 9832.35 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 4608 MB in  3.00 seconds = 1535.95 MB/sec

    Geekbench: http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/8251908

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  • SetsuraSetsura Member

    Nice, time to go back to Linode.

  • keem5tarkeem5tar Member
    edited February 2017

    Does their panel still look like this? (https://www.linode.com/linodes)
    Compared to DO and Vultr it's horrible.

  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited February 2017

    @keem5tar said:
    Does their panel still look like this? (https://www.linode.com/linodes)
    Compared to DO and Vultr it's horrible.

    That's funny because their control panel has been one of the most beloved features that set them apart, well before DO and Vultr panels existed. It was one of the most advanced around, and may well still be.

    I think linode is on a solid track to remain a big name in the market. I barely ever see anyone speak poorly of them anymore despite having compromised customer data twice I think? Not to mention one of the worst outages of all time.

    Goes to show you that the court of public opinion will be most heavily influenced by how you treat your customers, not by whether or not you can claim perfection. How you present and carry yourself is everything, and they've always done this well.

    This $5 entry is a game changer for public opinion. It may not generate wads of cash but it will generate customers who will become advocates.

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  • trewqtrewq Administrator, Patron Provider

    @keem5tar said:
    Does their panel still look like this? (https://www.linode.com/linodes)
    Compared to DO and Vultr it's horrible.

    Might not be flashy but it works.

  • DroidDroid Member

    Is there any Linode promo codes available?

  • GromGrom Member

    @Droid said:
    Is there any Linode promo codes available?

    It just went 50% off, do you really ask for another discount lol...

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