As the title says, let's see what Linoders can't get enough of...

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Outages affecting the web sites my wife browses from her tablet when she can't get to sleep.

tap, tap tap tap, tap, tap tap, tap...

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LOL @ the above.

But seriously, it seems many more people would rather more storage than RAM. This comes as such a shock to me...

I'd seriously take half the storage and transfer I'm getting for double the RAM.

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Pie! If every linode came with a free supply of pie's I'd sleep very well (and be very fat)

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RAM? Heh...

linode.pts/0% free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           494        374        120          0          7        316
-/+ buffers/cache:         51        443
Swap:          256          9        247

51Mbyte RAM used. I guess I don't run these memory intensive programs kids these days need

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Hmm... I think a large part of it is that you can (usually) optimize your configuration/infrastructure to reduce your RAM footprint, but if you need to store x GB of data, you can't get around that.

In other words, running out of RAM is a trivial annoyance; running out of storage is a Problem.

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Yeah I get it. My requirement is to serve up pages as fast as possible. Less than 10ms from Drupal is where I am

I now realise that the guys with high storage needs have a harder time than me...

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I like the pie idea, however, I suggest maybe we attempt to make this easier and go for doughnuts.

Something glazed and jelly filled would be nice or perhaps a cream filled chocolate bar.

<<insert Homer Simpson drool here>>

+1 pie

Did you know, even though the linode.com front page only advertises up to 4GB RAM and 160GB storage, you can actually get linodes all the way up to 20GB RAM and 800GB storage.

Still, it's not the "elastic" type of storage most people who say they want storage really want. They want to be able to add significantly more storage without having to get a bigger linode.

Current effective monthly Linode payments: $17/mth
Cost per month of an 800GB Linode: $800/mth

OK, that's my personal linode, our business-side expenses have the backup fee tacked on, but you get the idea.

You're not seriously saying this is a viable option for people who are finding their 20GB linode too small? No problems, just mortgage your house?

Everybody here understands why on-linode storage is expensive; it's fast, and 15K RPM HDDs don't get very large. However, slower cheaper SAN or NAS storage would be appreciated. Our not-for-profit needed more space, but found it far more affordable to build a server, put it in our office, and get a 25 down 10 up VDSL2 line to our office. This was enormously cheaper, unfortunately, than getting extra of space at Linode.

Live in the CLOUD.

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Linode Storage add-on service with cheap NAS/SAN storage that appears as mountable disk space in the Linode Manager?
BEST EVER

That being said, more RAM would certainly be appreciated as well as disk space.

Personally, I could use a few hundred more CPU cores.

James

What are you doing, searching for primes?

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