I went and read the whole post. He doesn't indicate in any way how Linode was unhelpful. He says that he was nullrouted, and was fine with that, but then he called Linode and they were unhelpful. Well, what was he looking for, to be un-null-routed? There's probably a protocol about hoe long they wait before doing that...



Not seeing any problems there...

I'm not trying to attack either. IPv6 is being offered now, and that's great. What I'm saying is that the pattern of response was slow (3 years) and up to the final offering, the response to requests seemed to alternate between "coming soon" and "relax, you don't really need it yet."

It appears others are fine with it, so, since I'm probably moving my VPSes to other places in a couple months anyway, I withdraw my suggestion.

Until there are users who are given ipv6 addresses by their ISPs and not ipv4 and their ISPs don't do a 6to4 for them, you don't *need* it. linode was well ahead of the *need* line.

Indeed, Linode started providing IPv6 before it became necessary, but later than many early adopters, and they tend to be secretive about future developments.
Not situations I like, but not deal-breakers for me personally, given the other aspects of Linode I do like.

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1) Don't sell Linode! Keep up the good work.

2) More backup snapshots, with ability to restore them on another machine

3) Low cost S3 type storage. I currently pay about $30/month to Amazon for about 300 GB of backups, which i think is about 6 times more than it should be.

1) Singapore node - Research EC2, Voxel. Qala DC.

2) SAN per GB costs and per number of IO ops, use commodity hardware if you must. You'll see a number (well practically all) SAN based VPS providers have had or continue to have problems with their SAN storage but its simply being oversubscribed and/or the right sharing limits arent enforced, dont host the OS disks on there, but give an option to buy 10gb SAN chucks that I share between my VPS and sell me so many IO ops, or bullocks move with times and create an abstraction on top of storage like s3 or cloudfiles - i think their stack is opensource, hire a few gurus and get a cluster going on the private network. We should all build for failure, but I dont feel like running my own distributed gridfs or hadoop when I simply have to persist some photos etc..

Dear Linode

Will we be getting more disk space this year as part of Linode's birthday celebrations?

tyvm

I genuinely hope its RAM...

You guys got more disk space last year didn't you? And historically it has more times than not been disk space upgrades. I think it's the RAM guys turn

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A little more transparency in your business operations. I've seen things that make me feel a little uncomfortable.

Storage, maybe something like Amazon's S3

Notification if a backup fails

Something else that would be nice would be a higher default speed cap on the private network. Even if you don't use up all the bandwidth, there is still some extra latency introduced with a lower speed which can make a difference if you try to run a database on another Linode.

1. UTC on everything, or at least an option to select your preferred timezone. This includes status.linode.com, manager.linode.com, and the default timezone when setting up new Linodes (it took me way too long to figure out how to change the timezone and not get it to reset itself, and it doesn't make sense why a London Linode should default to GMT-5).

2. The ability to choose a custom range on the graphs, not just 1 day or 1 month. Some of Google/YouTube's graphs have a custom scroller at the bottom where you can not only scroll all the way from creation to now, but you can also resize the thumb to zoom to whatever level you want.

3. Not something I'll need for a while, but would still love to see: More resource pooling and customization. I'd love to be able to change at any time how much RAM, disk space and bandwidth is available to my account in each datacenter, and then redistribute these between Linodes on demand. Also, the ability to have slower but cheaper storage space would be very useful - I could buy a 1TB disk for about £100, but I've never seen any VPS company anywhere offer this much space at decent prices. And while I'm at it, more server locations, namely Australia and continental Europe (Germany, Netherlands or the like). Okay, I kinda made this one into three suggestions, but still.

This argument is becoming akin to Godwin's law. Eventually, someone will always end up suggesting that somehow a consumer-grade hard disk has any place in a hosted server environment.

I'm not going to re-hash all the arguments against this here, but rather I'll just link to an excellent Serverfault Q&A on the subject.

Even if they were to offer super low-end storage using these crappy drives, their labor costs would still go up due to increased hardware maintenance costs. It just doesn't pay...

While this is generally true, there is still an enormous price-per-gigabyte difference between enterprise-grade 15K RPM SAS drives and enterprise-grade 7200 RPM SATA drives. Linode customers aren't asking for bargain-bin pricing based on consumer drives, but simply the ability to choose capacity over performance.

• Transparency.
  
• I would appreciate a bump in ram or disk space or bandwidth or a tad bit of all 3 .
  
• An additional vote for more transparency.

Unless I missed it, there still has been no announcement regarding the 'bitcoin incident' aside from the fact that it happened and the above quote was from 5 weeks ago.

That being said, I love this place and if there is any reason behind people saying not to sell it, I agree, please don't sell it.