I know I for one would choose the
"120MB RAM for $12/month" option if it existed.
Or, even more extreme, "60 MB RAM for $8/month"
Thanks!
-=r

Hello,

We're not going to go below the $20/mo (ok, $19.95) price point, sorry.

Thanks for your input,
-Chris

It's a good idea, though. you can do quite a lot of work with 120MB of RAM.

What about $19.95 per 2 months or something like that?

Having said that, ~120 linodes per host would seem a bit extreme....

The problem is low RAM + more linodes = more IO load... That's not something that can be fixed by changing the billing cycle :)

That's too bad since it still makes shared hosting seem tempting

I hope they can get more disks or faster sometime and make this possible. Or that xen comes up with a better IO scheduler that punishes those who overuse the disk


-=r

I don't think shared hosting is really competition. When you get a VPS, you are probably aware that you need one, or have a specific requirement for one. Cheers!

If you're doing something that can be accomplished with shared hosting, that's always going to be a cheaper way of doing it.

Alas, there are too many people out there who are looking to get a VPS simply because they think it'll give them a magical performance boost at the cost of a lunch, or because they got dugg and kicked out by their draconian shared host.

Well it is a pretty nice performance boost!

But a VPS is also a lot of work. If a person isn't willing to put forth the effort to learn, maintain, optimize, and monitor a system then they should probably go with shared hosting.

I like having a VPS because that just makes the whole hobby of running a fansite that much more fun. But I'm masochistic that way.

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When you don't have 80 Linode180s fighting for the same resources... (which is the original point of the thread)

I was thinking about this the other day -- a "Minode" for firewalling etc in front of another (360/540/720 etc) Linode

But if Linode have decided they're not going to go there, then I can push that idea out

Perhaps they can offer "mini" linodes as as an addon to existing "full" linodes. I'd be interested in a $12/mo 120MB / 5GB linode to compliment my other linodes. I'd personally use it for dns, and to run nagios, some admin web apps and other scripts on. it would be nice to move those tasks off the main web servers.

You'd still run into the same issue of too many Linodes on a server. This is one of the reasons I'm here, because Linodes does NOT over sell their servers. Linode is part of a very small set of hosts who do not oversell their servers.

If Linode started doing this, I'd move. The last thing and last place I want to be is a bargain basement host selling to the "$4.95/month unlimited" crowd. Nothing but trouble comes from that. You make VPS that cheap and you'll have nothing but problems.

If you need cheap VPS http://www.vaserv.com/ oh wait, they're dead in the water....

Just had to put my .02 in the bucket.

You pretty much nailed it

There's already a market niche for < $20 a month crowd and it's rather full

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Sounds like a nice addon, say those with greater than 1-2 Linodes have the option of getting a baby one for as long as they keep the bigger ones, otherwise the price reverts to something ridiculous.

In the business scheme of things, a $20 Linode in your monthly costs shouldn't really be breaking the bank

I can understand Linode's point of view wanting to have a minimum revenue per customer/month.