Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service

Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by locopati on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:06PM (#2759633)

Does the price seem steep to anyone, seeing as it's the same price as 512MB virt but does only load balancing?

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by thaumaturgy on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:33PM (#2759746)

Not to me; if you have a problem which NodeBalancer can solve, then it's likely that you already have multiple Linodes and an additional $19.95 will be a relative drop in the bucket, especially given what you get from it.

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by b1tr0t on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @03:38PM (#2760308)

Let's compare with Rackspace cloud load balancer for one month (30 days * 24 hours) = 720 hours. (From their pricing page: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/loadba...). Linode is allowing 5000 simultaneous connections. Rackspace charges for balanced bandwidth. Let's pick something modest 1 TB up, 5 TB down. Rackspace cost: $1530.80/mo.

So, I'd say linode's price seems quite reasonable. :)

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by rmason on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @02:22PM (#2759967)

Twenty bucks a month is nothing. It's pretty hard to find any hardware load balancers for less than $1500 each. At my last job I wrote a hardware proposal that called for redundant $80K load balancers. Though I'm sure that the NodeBalancer can't match the feature set yet of the high end machines I sure like this trend.

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by whakojacko on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:19PM (#2759674)

You are also paying for 1) their software work involved and 2) running on multiple hosts, which is a must for any non-trivial environment

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by mrinterweb on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @02:05PM (#2759885)

If your stack requires a load balancer, you would have to pay $19.95 for a dedicated 512 node that you would need to then configure and manage your own load balancer. This new service is also managed, distributed, and has an API. $19.95/month seems like a steal to me.

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by jsprinkles on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @02:19PM (#2759949)

One Linode 512 is not highly available. Two is. The documentation indicates that this service is highly-available.

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by mrinterweb on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @04:49PM (#2760614)

True. I was intending to draw a comparison to what kind of load balancing you can get on Linode for $19.95 if you were to do it yourself. I highly doubt it is possible to roll a superior load balancer service on your own for less than NodeBalancer.

I was recently trying to figure out how I was going to handle this on Linode. I am very glad to see this new service. If NodeBalancer has the ability to fail over to other data centers in the instance of a data center wide outage then I'll be set.

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by mgrouchy on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @01:43PM (#2759793)

$20/mo is a trivial amount of money to spend to not have to manage it yourself.

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by shuttlebrad on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @05:06PM (#2760682)

Compare $20 to the cost of

1. working out how to do it yourself

2. ironing out any kinks in your homegrown solution

3. worrying about it 2am.

Totally worthwhile.

(edit: formatting)

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Re:Introducing NodeBalancer, load-balancer-as-a-service by lanstein on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @02:22PM (#2759970)

No.

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