Linode Introduces $5 VPS with 1GB RAM

https://www.linode.com/pricing

by _Chief • 9 years ago

34 18 9 years ago

nodesocket2• 9 years ago

Previously post and discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13645213

git-pull2• 9 years ago

For reference, DigitalOcean's $5/mo droplets have 512MB memory [1]. This will crash if you're building a golang projects like gogs or C extensions in node or python. YMMV, but I had to bump on DO droplets to 1gB memory for installation, even if 512mB could do it while running.

Linode is top tier. Support is great. Interface makes sense. Instances are fast. One of the things that led me to DO was the $5/mo instances though. It's hard to resist a cheap personal server you can host all your legacy projects stuff on.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#droplet

nodesocket2• 9 years ago

+1. You can't compile node on 512MB of memory. You need to allocate swap to do so.

carbocation• 9 years ago

As someone with 5-10 active Go projects in production, may I ask why you're compiling on the server? I use cross-compilation to build locally then sync to the server. Am curious to understand other use cases.

git-pull2• 9 years ago

I use cross-compilation to build locally then sync to the server.

I don't have a lot of prod code in golang. It's just a gogs server, the rest of is in other languages. All of which the best practice is pulling down requirements (some of which build c-extensions against headers which versions differ) on the server.

As a side note gogs has been really great. For those who don't know you can grab it at https://gogs.io/.

_Chief• 9 years ago

Scaleway offering €2.99 2GB ram VPS, you can also check them out. Though their servers are hosted in Paris & Amsterdam.

It was also a pleasant surprise seeing a Brad Fitzpatrick testimonial on their homepage https://www.scaleway.com/

tmikaeld3• 9 years ago

The difference in price is also a difference in reliability, scaleway doesn't use ECC memory, but linode does.

loosescrews• 9 years ago

YMMV, but I had to bump on DO droplets to 1gB memory for installation, even if 512mB could do it while running.

Alternatively you could just add a swap file.

Veratyr3• 9 years ago

Linode is top tier. Support is great. Interface makes sense.

Should be mentioned though that it hasn't always been this way. Before they rebuilt their management infrastructure they were hacked a couple of times and their response was... Not great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552756

They've made a lot of progress since then but they were also DDoSed quite heavily recently which brought a lot of downtime.

ac29• 9 years ago

Can anyone comment what kind of throughput a VPN can do on one of these? I assume it is CPU limited.

I like the idea of a private, personally controlled VPN for $5/month, but if the CPU limits it to 10Mbps, not worth it.

tmikaeld3• 9 years ago

If you use softethers own VPN, you can get at least 100Mbit even on a box this small. (tested on OVH smallest VPS)

Veratyr3• 9 years ago

Unless you're using an abnormally CPU heavy VPN, you should be able to saturate the NIC without issues. Linode has 1Gbit NICs though peering, like always, is a potential problem.

mdekkers2• 9 years ago

though peering, like always, is a potential problem

Would you mind to explain? I am not sure what you mean.

Linode Introduces $5 VPS with 1GB RAM

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