I just signed up for the cheapest Linode package in the Atlanta area. It is so fast, Apache, MySQL and a couple of sites are already on it. I usually use Apache, but Lighttpd looks interesting. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:56 PM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Agreed. I just started my second year of Linode service. I have had<br>
zero problems with the service, and my questions (relating to how OS<br>
upgrades would work and billing) were answered promptly and<br>
thoroughly.<br>
<br>
I'm sure the outgoing bandwidth for a node is limited (100Mb?), but<br>
incoming doesn't seem to be. I pull updates from the GATech Debian<br>
mirror so fast it's like they didn't even download. Of course, my node<br>
is located in the Atlanta facility (you get to pick which data center<br>
you want).<br>
<br>
As for reliability, my node was running non-stop (at least according<br>
to `uptime`) for ~340 days before I had to reboot for a kernel<br>
upgrade. I'm running three Wordpress sites (and a couple other<br>
non-Wordpress) via Lighttpd, with MySQL on the same node, and<br>
everything is smooth and quick. I use the Linode 768 package. Here<br>
are some current stats:<br>
<br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
# ps_mem.py<br>
Private + Shared = RAM used Program<br>
<br>
84.0 KiB + 26.0 KiB = 110.0 KiB logger<br>
92.0 KiB + 31.5 KiB = 123.5 KiB getty<br>
172.0 KiB + 21.5 KiB = 193.5 KiB mysqld_safe<br>
168.0 KiB + 41.5 KiB = 209.5 KiB init<br>
288.0 KiB + 49.0 KiB = 337.0 KiB cron<br>
276.0 KiB + 111.0 KiB = 387.0 KiB su<br>
428.0 KiB + 48.5 KiB = 476.5 KiB exim4<br>
260.0 KiB + 314.5 KiB = 574.5 KiB ntpd (2)<br>
776.0 KiB + 132.0 KiB = 908.0 KiB rrdtool<br>
840.0 KiB + 82.0 KiB = 922.0 KiB rsyslogd<br>
800.0 KiB + 1.1 MiB = 1.8 MiB sshd (3)<br>
1.9 MiB + 807.0 KiB = 2.7 MiB bash (2)<br>
3.2 MiB + 212.0 KiB = 3.4 MiB lighttpd<br>
44.2 MiB + 187.0 KiB = 44.4 MiB mysqld<br>
51.0 MiB + 44.8 MiB = 95.8 MiB php5-cgi (12)<br>
---------------------------------<br>
152.2 MiB<br>
=================================<br>
<br>
Private + Shared = RAM used Program<br>
<br>
# cat /proc/meminfo<br>
MemTotal: 769672 kB<br>
MemFree: 33412 kB<br>
Buffers: 70124 kB<br>
Cached: 521288 kB<br>
SwapCached: 116 kB<br>
Active: 438852 kB<br>
Inactive: 254980 kB<br>
Active(anon): 56592 kB<br>
Inactive(anon): 45840 kB<br>
Active(file): 382260 kB<br>
Inactive(file): 209140 kB<br>
Unevictable: 0 kB<br>
Mlocked: 0 kB<br>
HighTotal: 47112 kB<br>
HighFree: 160 kB<br>
LowTotal: 722560 kB<br>
LowFree: 33252 kB<br>
SwapTotal: 524280 kB<br>
SwapFree: 524164 kB<br>
Dirty: 68 kB<br>
Writeback: 0 kB<br>
AnonPages: 102312 kB<br>
Mapped: 53676 kB<br>
Shmem: 12 kB<br>
Slab: 29772 kB<br>
SReclaimable: 24584 kB<br>
SUnreclaim: 5188 kB<br>
KernelStack: 976 kB<br>
PageTables: 1736 kB<br>
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB<br>
Bounce: 0 kB<br>
WritebackTmp: 0 kB<br>
CommitLimit: 909116 kB<br>
Committed_AS: 350444 kB<br>
VmallocTotal: 122880 kB<br>
VmallocUsed: 4412 kB<br>
VmallocChunk: 118400 kB<br>
DirectMap4k: 739320 kB<br>
DirectMap2M: 0 kB<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Michael B. Trausch <<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 12:34 -0400, David Hillman wrote:<br>
>> Anybody using Linode or Slicehost<br>
><br>
> I'm a Linode user, and have been for about the past year.<br>
><br>
>> and happy about the experience?<br>
><br>
> Quite. More than I can express. They're reliable and you can do some<br>
> pretty interesting and complex thing with them.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>--<br>
James Sumners<br>
<a href="http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/" target="_blank">http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/</a><br>
<br>
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts<br>
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it<br>
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br>
<br>
Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>
CH:D 59<br>
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