After Linode's $5 VM, we tested its $12 plan 3 times in LAX. What did $7 buy?

Posted by gsgreen on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @11:41AM
from the webbynode.com dept.

https://webbynode.com/articles/linode-12-vps-extra-7-dollars-lax

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Re:After Linode's $5 VM, we tested its $12 plan 3 times in L... by dotted_vulcan on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:18PM (#49364387)

so you are the reason for the cpu steal and the permanent slow down on my linode. get a dedicated server bro.

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Re:After Linode's $5 VM, we tested its $12 plan 3 times in L... by gsgreen on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:47PM (#49364739)

We plead guilty only to measuring it! Each VM was freshly deployed, benchmarked, and destroyed afterward - takes about 7 minutes of uptime each. No Linode servers were harmed in the making of the article. Promise.

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