I have been a Linode customer for a long time, and love how my once tiny instance has steadily grown in resources.

But for some applications, a 512 instance is overkill.
I think that a $10/month 256 instance would be awesome in your lineup

they've stated numerous times that it's just not worth it to go below the $20 price point.

Just my $0.02.

I fortunately do not have the time to troll the fanboy forums.

So they can charge me $20 and give me two

All humor aside, if they offered two 256s for $20 a month, I would pick them up, if only to have 2 little test boxes to play with. Obviously, if this isn't something that is economically/practically/whimsically feasible, then I guess I'll just have to survive with an extra $20 in my wallet.

If it's not worth a piddly $20USD a month - is it really worth doing at all?

It's call OVERHEAD costs - go to your library and check out BUSINESS 101 for DUMMIES and see what that means.

Two big problems with the smaller-plans concept:

1) It would necessarily entail doubling the number of Linodes per physical host, which would negatively impact I/O and CPU performance.

2) Benchmarks of VPS providers tend to be performed against the lowest-priced plans.

So, it would suck more and be bad for business. Probably a non-starter

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I would also welcome such a micro package...havinga small testing box for private purposes for $10 would be great...I wouldn't even care about the performance or how many Linodes would be on one server...even then it would probbaly be better than most $10 VPS-es out there who heavily oversell their servers...

@vonskippy I have been following the forums for a while and noticed ur posts. Are u a troll or a fanboy...or whatever, allways bashing people for not having 20$...not everyone uses Linode for business, and yes 240$ a year is lot for some people...some people here like me are uni students who just want a reliable test box to host some of our projects, or a private git repo, or whatever...I dont need a expensive 512MB box for that...so cool u have ur well running business and earn enough to finance a dozen of Linodes...so what...who cares...not everyone does...

And yet you do such a good job of it...

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How sad - mommy won't up your allowance eh?

Really funny...I knew there was a angry little man hidding in there somewhere So sad that all u can do is insult people...

Anyways I have read up about Linodes opinion on this topic so there's no point in continuing this discussion...micro wont happen...

I'll +1 this as well.

In my particular case, it would be awesome to be able to run smaller linodes for things like load balancers. A 256 linode would work great for this, as the only thing they would need to run in our case would be nginx.

Don't get me wrong I love how you guys doubled all the ram for the same price It would just be kind of nice to have a small option to use for something like this and have the benefit of private networking them.

It's not feasible for Linode, and I respect that, that's a business decision and it makes sense for them.



You're just rude. Mocking someone because they aren't in the same financial situation as you? That's inappropriate no matter who you are.

Brian Puccio - Big Brother to the weak and downtrodden.

Geesh guys - get your freaking panties unbunched and rent a sense of humour eh?

It may be inappropriate for some use cases, but a User-Mode Linux instance inside a Linode can be good for testing purposes. Thus you would have several running micro Linuxes (you call for) under one paid Linode.

PS at my laptop, I use KVM instances for testing. It is better, but we won't have it under a Xen instance, would we, Jed?

256mb might be enough ram for my mom, but not for me.
Ubuntu server won't even run on 256mb of ram in my experience. maybe it could run LAMP.