Linode is fantastic and I have loved them for 10+ years. Digital Ocean doesn't host here, nearest is Singapore. Vultr does but I have had poor experiences with them. The other options are AWS and Google which are potentially unbounded expenses which is hard to sell to clients that already see $12/m (aud) as a cost sink, no matter what the server+service will save them in seat time.
There are of course local hosts but they're either oversold cpanel hosts or comparatively expensive (3-10x the price for the same hardware).
I guess it just feeds from my existential dread of being a small fish where if any one of these upstream providers decide "oh, no we flagged that account because of [black box reason], sorry!", you can be out a lively hood with no real recourse.
Guess it just kinda sucks to be at what feels like the end of the long tail of infrastructure.
They also just opened a DC in Melbourne.
Possibly too clever.
Nowadays, whenever someone goes there, I just change my usual lighthearted tone to a serious one and say "Yeah, our prices are firm, if that's outside of your budget it's better we just move on". They 180 real fast. Every. Single. Time. Then they never mention prices again.
When it works, it works.
When it fails, it didn't work, but the next step is not "Quit" but "Continue".
(Kind of rhetorical, but interesting to me)
I did a bunch of digging a while back and it looks like the "simply cannot go any lower" baseline is $250/mo.
I'm waiting for a new Linode to pop up.
Vultr's CPU isn't as good as the other 2 by the look of sysbench, even for high frequency types.
Those 3 vendors only have 2 or 3 backup slots which can be kind of unreliable if you didn't notice data loss over a weekend and weekly backup can be too far apart.
Hetzner is almost perfect if they have a bit more location. Very cheap, very high performing, daily backup with plenty of slots but no HDD block storage.
Sometimes Amazon Lightsail can be a decent option as they have 7 daily backup slots, free bandwidth is comparable to the others and prices aren't bad except their CPU suck.
Small things but none are perfect.
Linode have had block storage for ages, I use them for ZFS.
Unlike when Rackspace bought Slicehost, Linode probably isn't even the leader in its niche. That's probably DigitalOcean. Akamai probably figured out which of the two it could buy and DigitalOcean probably would have cost $4+ billion while Linode only cost $900 million. When Rackspace bought Slicehost, there were really two alternatives: Linode and AWS. AWS came with a lot of complexity and Linode was small.
If you're looking for a new Linode to pop up, you don't have to wait. Vultr, DigitalOcean, and tons more already exist and have for years. It's not 2010 where you don't have loads of options in this space. Go with Hetzner or OVH Cloud and get really cheap prices (I've found Hetzner Cloud to be really nice). There are so many places that will give you a VPS today. Heck, AWS will give you a Linode-like experience with Lightsail, right?
That's why I think Akamai wants to use Linode as a way to build something that will let them start getting into the AWS/GCP/Azure space. It's somewhat where Linode was already heading, albeit slowly. Linode started offering hosted Kubernetes, object storage, block storage, hosted databases, and load balancers. How long before they might have added a queuing system, an app-runner so you don't even need to think about boxes/load balancers, etc.
For the low price of $900M, they could jump-start that process at Akamai. Rackspace thought that the future was their high-touch, high-cost, managed services. Akamai probably wants to use Linode to get into the AWS space and with a separate brand, they can do it without as much risk to their mainline business. There are too many alternatives for Akamai to be deluded enough to think they can just ruin Linode and not like that $900M on fire. That wasn't the case when Rackspace bought Slicehost.
If Akamai was also free and as accessible as Cloudflare, they would start to grow for sure.
Eh, what? Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, OVHcloud already exist. The first 2 at least have feature parity I thought.
They're also now part of a giant media company (!), so yeah, pass.
I'm happy with what I'm getting for the price I'm paying. I'm not interested in a bigger spend here at all.
So yes, it's completely fair to dismiss Pair as being too expensive based their prices alone.
Tl;dr: No. Brand recognition / recall is a powerful marketing tool.
Unfortunately, I think Pair is in the latter category.
Mine don't seem to be affected
I would expect the opposite. Doesn't DHCP make more sense, for example, if the user creates a snapshot and restores it with a new IP? I don't use Lenode, so I can't judge, but I would expect DHCP to be default.
I learned this because I wanted to test image recovery of deleted linode. When I restored it, I got a different IP address from linode (the static IP assigned to me), and I couldn't connect to it. Using the web console I found the IP address was hard coded to the old one still.
If you do, your instance may fall over after its DHCP lease expires and it then presumably fails to acquire a new one and goes all 169.254.x.x on you.
The possible counterpoint / information-vacuum bit here is that I don't know what the DHCP lease time is, so the expiry may already have happened.
IOW, apparently this started 4h ago, and so the last leases were presumably issued 4h ago, and maybe the lease length is 1h, so everything's already as dead as it's going to get, so maybe if you're not already dead, you're fine.
We run some Windows instances, which were DHCP out of laziness. <facepalm> [edit: It's a PITA to fire up a Windows instance on Linode. Once working, switching out of DHCP is near the bottom of the todo list.]
The IP lease never changes but it's assigned by DHCP - check your settings (mine was in /etc/netplan/01-netcfg.yaml
dhcp4: yes