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Comment by tiffanyh | Hacker News Reader

Off topic: any updates on Linode's Bare Metal service?

It's been 2-years since it's been announced as "Coming Soon" and I haven't seen any updates.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201116142627/https://www.linod...

I gave up. I submitted an inquiry on their sales form for dedicated and got no response, I contacted their support and got "we'll let you know." They've at least added nvme storage for instances, but in at least their Dallas data center the iops suck. In Newark it's a bit better.

If you've got a bunch of servers at a linode data center and want bare metal ones, I ended up just looking at what other hosts are peered with their nearest exchange. Our servers are in Dallas and Vultr, Equinix via IBM Cloud, and Servermania all had peering to them through a local exchange at infomart or nearby. We ended up moving database servers to those bare metal services and connecting over wan to our linode ones. Latency less than 5ms.

Linode also contacted us to ask why our monthly usage halved. We told them, they offered no alternatives.

Same experience, no response. I tried contacting them both a year ago and about 6 months ago and never heard back.

I went with Vultr (as you mentioned as well) and couldn't be happier.

https://www.linode.com/products/bare-metal/ —still prefaced with "coming soon" but it looks like you can "create your build".

Limestone networks (http://lstn.net) offers great bare metal services. I used to work there 7-8 years ago and they are a no frills, no bs company. They will give you a good deal also :)

Yep. I use their bare metal cloud and it connects to our whmcs so we’re able to resell it. I did get a better deal than they advertise by asking.

A bare metal data point, since I just went through the process of finding an alternative to Packet.net since they were acquired by Equinix : try Hivelocity. My experience with them has been so far so good.

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