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I can't seem to find if this will affect me...I currently pay $600 per-month for $480 shared instance w/$120 backups.

Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?

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According to the ticket I got, the VPSes are going up 20% but the backup price isn't changing, so your new bill will be around $696/mo, an increase of $1,152/yr.

The main alternatives in the budget cloud space are Digital Ocean, Vultr, OvH etc - they're all similarly priced for the equivalent servers, but I wouldn't be surprised if they all start increasing their prices to match - DO especially as they recently laid off a load of employees.

Thanks-- at least they are not increasing the backup costs.

Which is good, because their backups for large servers are troublesome.

(short answer, too many inodes are bad. too many is low single digit millions.)

Hetzner is pretty good.

I'm looking into them, thanks!

I always like the affordability and the no-frills, no-BS Web design of Linode.

Looks like it's time to potentially transition to Hetzner, who I knew as good-quality and GDPR-compliant but didn't have on my radar as particularly low-cost before.

Any other options for low-end experimental boxes? $5/month, anyone?

Can confirm. Have been using them for a while now and they have yet to cause me any issues. Prices are super reasonable, especially for the cheaper instances. Been using them as my static IP vpn for my homeserver for a while now. Maybe they'd be uncomfy if you want a non German owned vps, which is understandable, but $/performance wise, they are pretty damn good

I just wish Hetzner had a UK PoP, I would jump on that in a second!

> Looks like this is going to cost me an additional $1440/year for... nothing. Anyone have a recommended alternative to Linope?

My favorite hoster for years has been Vultr.com

Other alternatives would be UpCloud and DigitalOcean, I guess.

I've been happy with DigitalOcean, although they recently laid off their technical documentation team, which was terrible news. Otherwise, it's been rock solid and performs well.

DO also raised their prices recently. I think Linode is just following the suit as both the companies have similar user base.

DigitalOcean is already more expensive for the same performance (as in, when you actually benchmark machines). I moved my workloads to Linode and cut my prices in half, so a 20% increase still leaves it as cheaper.

I suppose as usual it depends on what you're doing. For boring application hosting, DO has been indistinguishable from Linode performance-wise.

DO had excellent technical documentation, okay support (I really miss Linode's), and has been regularly churning out new products. For someone that doesn't like moving infrastructure around, they are a good long-term bet.

The apps I made were very CPU and Network intensive- in one case it was a web crawler[1], the other was a github application that had to scan and review repositories fairly often[2]. CPU ended up being the ultimate bottleneck, and Linode performed far better.

1. https://github.com/tedivm/fedimapper

2. https://github.com/gitconsensus

Even with the price increase, DO looks like it would be 2x Linode's cost for what I require.

Linode has been such a great deal. Had been. I think the trick to saving money might be to find out how much RAM and CPU you actually need. If you really need the 20 cores and 96GB of RAM or whatever then that's another thing.

I could do with fewer cores, but the memory (and most importantly, the disk space) has been critical for me). When I compare alternatives, it seems pretty bleak.

Smaller instance + block storage?

That's an option, but seems to be only slightly cheaper (at Linode at least). I am also unsure of the block storage speeds and reliability (for example, use as a data directory on a database).

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