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Linode Birthday Giveaway

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Not nearly as good as the last two birthdays. :)

2010's brought a massive RAM increase: http://blog.linode.com/2010/06/16/linode-turns-7-big-ram-inc...

2011's bumped disk space up 25%: http://blog.linode.com/2011/06/16/linode-turns-8-disk-space-...

It requires you to pay for service until the end of July first. And then you may get the credit (if you were fast enough). Seems like a so-so deal to me.

I signed up with linode when they did a similar promotion about a year and a half ago, and it clearly said that I was in before the promotion ended and would be getting the bonus before I actually paid for it. I assume it will be the same way this time.

From the comments:

"The black ‘giveaway’ box on the signup page carries through the entire signup process – and will refresh to show how many Giveaway Bucks are remaining – so you’ll be able to tell BEFORE you complete the signup how close to the wire you are. If you don’t make the cut and don’t want the service and cancel we’ll refund your money. We’re not out to screw anyone."

I'm just hesitant after reading the comments here.

It's a brilliant promotion for them. Cheaper than AdWords and guarantees either new customers or upselling existing customers.

OVH is giving 10 000 (every day 100-500 ) servers for free to test new USA datacenter. I thinks its more valuable then linoide VPS http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/usa_order_beta.xml

Just follow OVH twitter

Seems to be over for the day today--when does the "day" start for them? Midnight CET? EST?

Edit: ah, they're making it unpredictable such that you have to follow their Twitter (@OVH) to find out :)

All allocated in 6? minutes and requires following on twitter. This allocation mechanism seems about as classy as "punch the monkey" banner ads.

I've been waiting for a reasonably priced Canadian VPS. just let me pay for it and sign up ffs....

I hope they keep their prices as low as they have for their european datacenters, because at that point I'll be all over that.

I get quite a bit of spam from OVH based servers.

I'm a huge linode fan and I feel guilty for my reaction to this giveaway ... which just happens to be ... "meh". I guess they've gotten to a point where giving out free RAM increases is not a sustainable endeavor :\

USD$250K is Linode services? Pfft. Linode should be giving away rebates in bitcoin.

In case you missed it, giveaway starts Tuesday, 12PM EDT.

I'm still amazed how quick people are to forget what happened with Linode.

Massive security issue (i.e. Bitcoin incident) where hackers got root access to any Linode VPS at the click of a button. Loyal customers were the last to hear about it (through their website no less) and absolutely no proper explanation was or has been given as to what happened, what was done about it and whether it will happen again.

You look at how Cloudflare handled their issue and it's night and day. Linode are one of the least transparent providers going around IMHO.

> Loyal customers were the last to hear about it

I'm a Linode customer, your message is the first time I've heard anything about it.

I'm considering linode for my next launch, and heard nothing of this as well. Thanks?

Ditto, I've been using Linode for over a year and haven't heard of this.

I've complained about this via their support channels a few different times. They're in the middle of a what seems like a very big security fixing phase right now relating to "something provided by one of their vendors". When I asked about it I was basically told to go away.

They really offer a very good service over all, but their transparency is atrocious.

They actually recently released information about this - there were multiple vulnerabilities in xen.civwould assume they were trying to keep the information quiet until the issue was fully resolved.

http://blog.linode.com/2012/06/13/xen-security-advisories-an...

If you read the specific vulnerabilities that were released you'd see an embargo was in place. According to Xen.org, Linode is on the predisclosure list. Seems they got the information, fixed the issue, and were able to announce it once the Xen guys did.

If anyone else is like me and wondering what he's talking about, here's a description from one of the victims:

http://bitcoinmedia.com/compromised-linode-coins-stolen-from...

I forgot just how opaque linodes acknowledgement of the issue was. Basicly just a head nod saying "yes, there was an issue." with no follow up or anything. Makes me really appreciate the heroku outage post. Makes me kind of sad to realize just what we'll put up with when things are out of sight. An issue analogous to this at a normal colo would be a HUGE deal.

s/heroku/cloudflare

I always thought highly of linode and their service, been using them for production and recommending others to do so. And then the bitcoin incident happened, after that they just can't be trusted with any client data.

I have an entry level Linode with backup service.

3 weeks ago, backups stopped for no obvious reason, I noticed after a few days and raised a ticket.

It was escalated to the "backup team"; who've proceeded to achieve nothing in almost 2 weeks towards fixing my backup issue. "They're working on it" does not inspire me with any hope.

So now I can't trust the backups, the support team, or really any part of the platform to perform as advertised or be fixed in a reasonable timeframe if it fails.

My single data-point.

I've been a customer of theirs for a couple years and have only learned about this now?! I've always thought highly of Linode otherwise.

I'm a Linode customer. More than year (14 months) without any problem, super support, good documentation and friendly community - it's MUCH more important than one hack incident.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a cheap but fast xen VPS either in Chicago or NYC? (Like under $7/month cheap)

Check out http://www.lowendbox.com/

rackpace is $11.16 for 256mb

Could be worth sifting through some of these:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=104

Otherwise I would definitely post in the main forum.

I was looking for specific recommendations that people have used. Thanks anyway.

Not in NYC or Chicago, but BuyVM is my go-to VPS. Super fast, nerdy support (know what you're doing and you're fine) and great services. Try their ping tests and see if that works for you. I'm in NYC and use it for most of my projects (so does my husband, who has 3x my geek cred).

Seriously I was paying 5x as much with another provider and getting shit performance in comparison.

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