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I quite like linode and have used them for years but it seems a bit disingenuous to not include competitors like digitalocean[1] and vultr[2] in this comparison. They have very similar pricing.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#droplet [2] https://www.vultr.com/pricing/

That would be pretty poor marketing, since Vultr is better value for blazing fast servers.

Excellent customer confusion marketing mastery example.

Why not to increase bandwidth to 10TB to make the numbers even higher ?

Why not to include OVH or Scaleway ?

[1]https://www.ovh.com/us/ [2]https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/

EDIT: To put to perspective Scaleway is on $3.2 USD/mo, while Linode $10 /mo

(not affiliated with Scaleway)

2Tb per month seems like a very reasonable amount of bandwidth for a single server.

Thanks! Those cheap Scaleway ARM server looks very interesting.

Keep in mind, they do not use ECC RAM.

Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.

Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lightweight APIs (in terms of bandwidth). Memory and CPU cores are a far more relevant metric of value for an api deployment.

For huge sites - perhaps. But do you do that for your own site ? For small business sites ?

True, but bandwidth still is very expensive for the non-linode VPSs.

In general, Linode and DigitalOcean have been very competitive in terms of customer satisfaction for VPS.

In this case, Linode offers only 125 Mbps which could be less compared to other cloud providers.

From what I have seen in the startup world around me, small sized companies use AWS/Google/Azure for production systems and tend to use DigitalOcean/Linode for staging / developer environments given they manage their own Devops.

Love Linode or Digital Ocean's style who put storage and bandwidth clearly in the pricing chart!

I can't never figure how to calculate Google, AWS's storage, bandwidth cost. They seems to do that on purpose to confuse potential users.

There is a table here which explains exactly how to calculate Google's bandwidth costs. Incoming network is free; outgoing costs between $0.08 and $0.23 per gigabyte, depending on where it is going.

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