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Linode sends out notices for every single maintenance event, which includes both emergency and scheduled events. The maintenance you experienced last month is explained here: http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-an...
For the record, we do allow more than 4 hours to respond to this form of abuse.
10TB/month averages out to 32Mbps. From what I've heard, try using anywhere near that on your typical "all you can eat" provider and you'll either be QoS'd enough to never achieve it or you'll suddenly be in violation of some finely printed Terms of Service.
This works for switching to Linode: http://library.linode.com/linode-platform/migration/migrate-...
Yes, many hosting providers offer(ed) free/discounted service to YC companies with various lengths of string attached.
The best choice is the one that provides you and your users the lowest latency: http://www.linode.com/speedtest/
On a side note, all facilities (and not just Linode's) will experience issues from time to time. You want to evaluate the manner in which it was resolved and the frequency. Don't move because of one outage in the last several years and degrade the experience for your customers. If an outage is going to damage your business then you should investigate high availability and/or quick deployment strategies.
All of that being said, if your users are mostly US based you probably won't notice the latency between any of the US based locations.
This is a good starting point: http://bit.ly/WdezH
I haven't seen anyone mention the cost of IO requests associated with EBS. Quoted from http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ :
As an example, a medium sized website database might be 100 GB in size and expect to average 100 I/Os per second over the course of a month. This would translate to $10 per month in storage costs (100 GB x $0.10/month), and approximately $26 per month in request costs (~2.6 million seconds/month x 100 I/O per second $0.10 per million I/O).
As far as making installations easier, you can also check out Linode StackScripts: http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/
The LAMP and LEMP (nginx instead of apache) stacks are two of the most popular.
The signup page displays the cost of the Linode plans while the backups page lists the cost to add the backup service to each of those plans.
The Linode Library may be of interest to you as well: http://library.linode.com/
Check out http://is.gd/5ub0S -- the service is free while in beta.
You actually get more resources for the same cost. Also, there is this: http://blog.linode.com/category/upgrades/
This may have something to do with it. Did you manually subtract votes from all newly created accounts or just Linode's?
it's not an infinite loop. leave a message and we'll return your call.
Yes, along with a few notifications via e-mail.
Perhaps it's not prominent on the site, but:
Bandwidth is pooled between all of your nodes (and it doesn't matter which data center you place them in).
We offer prepayment discounts: 10% for 12 months and 15% for 24 months. We also prorate all billing to the day (you only pay for what you use).
There is an API for the DNS Manager, with more to come.
not sure how long ago that was, but I'd be happy to look into it. service at linode.com
We (Linode) announced a public beta of our new backup service in our NJ facility yesterday and hope to have it rolled out to all four locations shortly: http://tinyurl.com/db8tlf
2 years ago $19.95 got you 100MB RAM, 4GB disk, 50GB transfer and a slower technology/CPU. Now you get 360/12/200 with Xen and SMP -- http://tinyurl.com/7jvrx4
the price hasn't gone down in two years, but the resources have more than tripled. . .