Ask HN: VPS Linode Vs Digital Ocean

2 points by jpd750 12 years ago | 3 comments

I'm trying to decide between these two companies: Linode vs Digital Ocean for a new VPS.

My needs are: potentially heavy CPU, and heavy memory usage.

I'm using a Amazon EC2 (Micro) instance right now - and paying ~$25/month for it (its never shut down) - which seems pretty non-cost effective for a VPS from Amazon that never is shutdown.

One of my biggest gripes right now about Amazon is its slowness (via Micro instance which makes sense having only like a .5gb of raw) where i could get a lot more hardware for potentially the same amount at Linode or DO.

Does anyone have statistics on the number of nodes (e.g. other client accounts) running on the same VPS for linode or DO?

I'll be running Ubuntu, with python stack

Thanks

joeyspn 12 years ago |

If you don't need a "cloud VPS" and you decide to get a dedicated, don't get an OVH server (been there done that), go for a Hetzner [0] with plans starting at 32G RAM DDR3 + Core i7 for just €49 (~$67)

If you need cheap bandwidth nothing beats D.O... So it all depends on your app needs. You should take a look at current LowEndBox [1] offers. I got a couple of 5Gig RAM + 2 cores (2.0Ghz/e) VPS's for $6/month in a limited offer 2 years ago (and I still have them and I'm very happy with the service!) Seriously, there's some nice stuff there...

[0] https://www.hetzner.de/en/

[1] http://lowendbox.com/

Grcia 12 years ago |

Get one Kimsufi or soyoustart server from OVH. Digital Ocean and Linode will not be enough for heavy lifting.

I`m personally using blend of two. 6 heavy servers on OVH and new projects always start in DO.

dkhenry 12 years ago |

if your not concerned with it not being a "cloud" instance then go to OVH and buy a physical server. It is worlds cheaper and you can set up linux with libvirt to be a very effective virtualization host. Its the setup I moved to and I can run four or five different VM's on a beefy host for the same price of a single amazon instance.