Linode giving $100 credit to first 1,000 new customers to sign up this Friday
blog.linode.com
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They really are great for people who have been sitting on the fence.
But new customers who recently signed up... those new customers all feel shunned and wish that they had of waited.
I feel betrayed!"
How would you like to feel instead? Happy that the trade you did was fair at the time, and also happy for the people getting a good deal? Sounds good.
There's your unit test: imagine linode offer. Current result: feel bad (q: how, precisely?). Desired result: feel good.
Now all you need to do is fix it as if you were fixing a bug report - explore why and how you feel bad (observing what actually happens in your head instead of what you think ought to be happening) and what you would need to change (in your head, not in the world) so you can feel good instead. Keep trying things and rerunning the test of imagining the linode offer as a check of whether you have successfully changed anything.
The essence of mindhacking in one HN comment. You could pay a therapist loads and not get to that heart of the matter, which is the old stereotyped Buddhism trope that the world is fine and if you feel bad, it's your job to fix your feelings, not the world.
The added revenue from this promotion will only increase their ability to serve you better in the future.
On the other hand, I don't really loose anything by it, so why worry about it?
If you'd like to ask more about my experience, please do so. In return, I'd like to shamelessly ask you use my referral link when you sign up: http://www.linode.com/?r=200d6bb341711532c638b475e536b0205ce...
I could always use another free month!
edit: screenshots on the linode site http://www.linode.com/features.cfm
At work, I'm stuck with servers that are 100ms+ away, and they are unusable over ssh with that latency. I'm willing to switch to Linode, but only if I get box-under-my-desk-like speed :)
Here: http://www.linode.com/avail/
That's a list of their systems. If you want to test the latency, ping one of them. For instance I'm on qwest's network in Phoenix, AZ. My ping time to
dallas1.linode.com is 40-45ms.
atlanta1.linode.com is 85-100
They're named by city...dallas1.linode.com fremont1.linode.com atlanta1.linode.com etc. etc.
They're going to get more than 1000 people signing up.
The order of magnitude above 1000 people will probably more than make up for the $100,000 they stand to lose.
Extending this idea, if I was the person involved with this deal, I'd also include current customers.
If they allowed this, the order of magnitude of new sign-ups (above 1000) would only be increased.
People who sign up for a second Linode are worth just as much as people signing up for their first Linode - there's potentially less risk, because current customers already have an established relationship with Linode, and are most likely to continue using their services once the credit has been spent.
I suppose it could be argued that current customers are more likely to sign-up for a second linode independently from any offer; but in counter to that, some current customers might be dissuaded from signing up for a second linode in the near future because the perceived value proposition has been lessened.
I think allowing current customers to sign up for a 2nd linode would be a win-win for Linode (and people like me who currently use them).
This doubly makes me wish they offered this to existing customers buying new nodes, however it's extremely similar to the Amazon deal a few weeks back.
For example, 10 VPSs per physical server, no more. If we're going to up 1000 new VPS, we're going to need 100 new physical servers.
This applies to all their extra pricing (other than ips and backups).
I'm upset with the outages but I'm more likely to move my freemont server back to dallas than switch hosts.
If Fremont was a random choice of the 4 US DC's Linode offers, I would consider putting in a ticket to be moved to another one of their DCs (they'll do it painlessly for free).
But, if I'm not mistaken, there is nothing like it in reality, it should really be "100,00" unless the Fed are planning to introduce new currency that is 1/10 of a cent...
According to this they are going to be 121 nodes short. I'm sure they are working on that as I write this though.
http://blog.linode.com/2010/12/15/linode-100000-giveaway/#co...
- Linode's DNS manager is pretty decent, and I've historically used it for both Linode and EC2 machines.
- EC2 t1.micro instances are frustratingly underpowered if you have a CPU spike, and they may "freeze" for as much as a second at time. I'm not convinced that Amazon is price/performance competitive at the very low end.
- EC2's ability to back up volumes to S3 is very handy.
- EC2's ability to spin a new system up alongside your old one, transfer the old IP address to the new system, and then spin down your old system is great.
So if what you want is a low-end Linux box that's online 24 hours a day, Linode can be an excellent choice. And a $100 credit will go a fairly long way.