I have read elsewhere on the Linode forums that outbound bandwidth for each node is capped at 50 mbps (which I'll be the first to say is pretty generous). Am I correct to assume that this restriction applies to traffic between nodes in the same data center, and not just outbound traffic?

Thanks.

Jonathan

I'd probably phrase the question a little differently (at the interface level, traffic out of a Linode to another in the same data center is still "outbound" from the source Linode's perspective), but based on some recent testing I was doing, yes, the limit applies to all outbound traffic.

Makes sense - likely just a rate limit by the hypervisor on the virtual network interface assigned to each Linode (Xen's "rate" parameter or equivalent).

-- David

While I don't know if the private network has a different outbound rate limit from the public network, you can ask Linode to remove the 50Mbps limit if you need more.