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A comment on $5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr.

Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by EduardoBautista on Saturday February 18, 2017 @01:41PM (#13676011)
I would love to try out Linode again but I recently added $100 in credit at Vultr because they currently match your first deposit up to $100. Linode generally offers twice the RAM at all price points so it's almost always a better value.
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Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by giobox on Saturday February 18, 2017 @05:34PM (#13677066)
Linode's biggest short-coming has always been their storage options.

There is still no way to add arbitrary storage volumes to a VPS on Linode, if you need more storage space you have to switch instance size. There's nothing like Vultr's block storage or Digital Ocean's droplets.

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Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by stevekemp on Sunday February 19, 2017 @07:32AM (#13679391)
> Linode's biggest short-coming has always been their storage options.

And their disclosure/handling of security issues.

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Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by hackerboos on Saturday February 18, 2017 @05:57PM (#13677169)
According to the forums they weren't working on this as late as August 2016.
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Re:$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail... by monster2control on Saturday February 18, 2017 @10:56PM (#13678115)
Their blog post mentioned block storage beta is coming at the bottom of the post.

https://blog.linode.com/2017/02/14/high-memory-instances-and...

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