[vox-tech] Experiences with linode or similar?

[Harold Lee]

Thanks for all the great feedback.

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ryan Castellucci
<cjg5ehir02 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:00:56PM -0700, Scott Miller scottlinux-at-gmail.com |lugod| wrote:
>> The only 'bad' thing (depending on your use or who you ask) is disk
>> space. You do get 16GB in the $20 plan which is enough for me.
>> Understand these are 15k SAS drives, so it's expensive storage but
>> crazy fast performance.
>
> Well, you don't have a dedicated spindle, so the IOPS isn't really
> impressive, but it is good enough for the most part.  You can also buy
> extra storage a la carte.
>
>> The cpu is a 4 core Xeon. I've never been able to utilize all of the
>> available CPU.
>
> Clearly you're not trying hard enough ;-)
>
>> Linode has a very good control panel, iphone app, and DNS manager
>> tools. Forum is there and friendly, but not very active.
>
> I'm fond of the DNS manager - way better than most I've seen.  They also
> have an IRC channel on OFTC, which *is* quite active and usually has
> staff in it.
>
>> I highly recommend Linode
>
> Seconded. I've been with them for at least two years now, can only recall
> 3 signifigant instances of downtime.
>
> -Ryan
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