This morning Lao Zuo saw that many netizens were discussing the price and configuration adjustment of Linde merchants. In fact, we should also be used to the annual Linode configuration Or price changes. Of course, we should also be familiar with the fact that every change will inevitably affect the market pattern of the VPS industry. For our users, it may be cheaper and more cost-effective to choose VPS host products. However, businesses may need to make corresponding adjustments, especially similar overseas VPS businesses.
For domestic host companies, the impact is not great, because the price competition is already very low, and the overseas VPS lines provided by most domestic companies are different, and most of them are beginning to adjust to Asian line products. On the contrary, every configuration upgrade and price adjustment of Linode will affect the performance of VPS itself. From Laozuo's personal point of view, the performance and stability of today's VPS is not as good as before. Although the cost is lower, the configuration obtained is higher. For example, the speed of today's JP2 machine room is not as good as that of JP1, which is out of stock, from personal use and netizens' feedback.
First Linode New Year configuration adjustment
The above is part of the old left screenshot Linode configuration For the scheme, we can see the following changes:
A - Memory Tuning
Compared with the original 2GB memory configuration, it is now adjusted to 1GB. To be honest, the original 2GB memory configuration is a bit wasteful; At present, the hard disk starts with 20GB SSD. The previous 2GB scheme was 24GB, but now it is adjusted to 30GB, which is an increase.
B - Bandwidth adjustment
The obvious change this time is also bandwidth. We can see that bandwidth sharing started at 1000 Mbps. The previous basic scheme was 125 Mbps, which is much higher than before in terms of data, but whether the actual speed of use has improved compared with the previous one. After a few days, we will open a separate machine to test it.
Second Linode newly registered discount code
No matter how the configuration and price of Linode change, it has always insisted that the first purchase can only be paid and recharged by credit card. Although the existing account background can be recharged with PAYPAL last year, there has been no change for new purchases. Lao Zuo personally felt that this line of defense would certainly be adjusted in the near future, because from the constant adjustment of prices, they began to be less "tall".
If we have an existing account, there is no way. When registering a new account, we can use the discount code to enjoy a reward of $10-20 for the account recharge balance. Sometimes the virtual card can support it, and sometimes the netizens feedback that it can't be used. I can't test the details, because their family is still somewhat strict with the account. I can't open multiple accounts with one card. It's troublesome to be found. I didn't have other cards to open tests.
About the currently available discount code of Linode, Mr. Zuo wrote an email to the official to ask if there was a higher one. There were many $10 or $20 items circulating on the Internet, but none of them were confirmed (I didn't have a card and didn't try to register whether it was valid). Here we can find this from the document location on the official website“ DOCS10 "The discount code can be used as a gift of $10 for a newly registered account.
A - Promotion Code Enter a $10 discount code for a new account DOCS10 (US $10), Podcastinit2017 ($20)
B - Referral Code 2623699f5b9edbcb99dd7f194e887dd94c851837
When you register a new account, the Promotion Code must be filled in to give you a free balance, The Referral Code can be left blank. It requires a minimum recharge of $5 to activate effectively. And a small number of users are not immediately available and need to wait for manual review, or even submit data for verification（ Refer to the Linode registration tutorial ）。 Thanks to Zrj766 for sharing the new $20 registration discount code.
Third Nine data centers in Linode
At present, There are nine data centers in Linode, of which JP1 is not available in the whole line. Even when the old account adds VPS, there is no JP1 machine room available, but the existing machines can continue to be used. Relatively speaking, JP2 is inferior to JP1. Of course, JP1 is not as stable as before, especially at night. Here Lao Zuo shares the test IP of nine data centers in Linode:
1. Newark: 50.116.57.237
2. Atlanta: 50.116.39.117
3. Dallas: 50.116.25.154
4. Fremont: 50.116.14.9
5. Frankfurt: 139.162.130.8
6. London: 176.58.107.39
7. Singapore: 139.162.23.4
8. Japan 1:106.187.96.148
9. Japan 2:139.162.65.37
Suggestions on the selection of computer room, from the perspective of PING speed, The speed data of JP2 looks good, but in fact, some friends feedback that the speed is not very good after use, and some are even inferior to computer rooms such as Fremont in the United States. We should choose according to the actual region and use. Anyway, they can delete the machine at any time, so if not, you can delete the machine and open another machine room.
Fourth Summary of new adjustment and configuration of Linode
1. From the configuration and price adjustment of Linode this year, we can see that Linode hopes to continue to expand its user base, and in fact, this will certainly have an effect, but whether it has an impact on performance will be seen later.
2、 Each adjustment of Linode will affect the price and competition in the industry. It is not clear whether similar businesses have price and configuration adjustments, especially Vultr and DO.
3. As our users, price reduction is a good thing, but stability is important. We prefer benign competition rather than the result of performance degradation caused by price reduction. Most of our users must choose between price and stability, just like Lao Zuo.
