Linode

“Yeah agreed. I actually only noticed because my two boxes are super slow”

“I have been running the same $5 VM for over a decade now with them”

“the cpu steal and the permanent slow down on my linode”

“I serve a static site on the lowest Linode $5/month VPS and it is grotesquely overprovisioned for that use case.”

“We still have some older VMs there and we'll likely continue to use them instead of Hetzner moving forward.”

“quickly got on the phone with a live human who was very familiar with the product and helpful”

“or Linode now that they're owned by Akamai”

“Linode dashboard is really good.”

“Linodes response of 'we have observed no illegal activity and are closing this ticket' is as close as you can get to 'yes, this is a legal wiretap and we aren't allowed to tell you about it'.”

“The answers by Hetzner and Linode read as if they were straight out of a dystopian novel.”

“The same thing on Hetzner or Linode would cost $30 instead of $30k.”

“they've kept bumping up prices over and over”

“the UI is consistent so I don't see a reason to change”

“Linode's default setup only gives each server a single /128.”

“I use Linode or DigitalOcean. Pay no more than $5 to $10 a month.”

“Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, ... are long established VPS players.”

“you can get a tiny linode or digital ocean droplet, and not worry about hardware failing”

“i can still ssh into my linode and debug it directly”

“predictable billing, docs that match reality, no surprise platform regressions”

“only used Linode for it's simplicity”

“Hetzner/Linode were MITMing their client(jabber.ru) withour any legal basis”

“I have seen them do this to IPs fro Hetzner, Linode, Amazon AWS (SES), etc.”

“Other (more responsible) VPS providers, e.g. Linode, actively block machines from which they detect a lot of abuse traffic.”

“on a $5 Linode VPS for at least a decade”

“If you deposit these funds into say Linode, it will be used.”

“Linode will provide a configured Linux box for $5/mo that works well with Claude Code and Termius.”

“They do not support moving v6 addresses, which means that the only sites I have control over”

“Linode at the time was the most developer friendly VPS provider.”

“we've quite enjoyed Linode (Akamai) for some custom servers (not http) over the last few years because they include DDOS scrubbing”

“you may also go with a 5$ virtual host”

“Linode has been rock solid for me.”

“I host everything on Linode (have for over a decade) and am never caught up in these outages.”

“Postgres had been running unattended for 7 years on Linode”

“Linode was great 10-15 years ago, then enshittification ensued”

“Linode would have a few in their London datacenter that just happened to occur at the worst possible time”

“it is a lot simpler to host at Linode”

“No longer getting DDOSed multiple years in a row on Christmas Eve is worth whatever premium Akamai wants to charge”

“It's honestly been pleasantly stable. I figured I'd have to move after a few months, but we're a few years into the acquisition and everything still works.”

“linode was better and had cheaper pricing before being bought by akamai”

“most startups that just run an EC2 instance will save a lot of cash going to Hetzner, Linode, Digital Ocean or whatever”