{"id":1065,"date":"2011-04-18T07:23:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T13:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2019-08-12T07:15:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:15:07","slug":"linode-7-years-of-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/linode-7-years-of-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Linode: 7 years of awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It just ocurred to me that I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linode.com\/\">Linode<\/a> as my hosting provider for 7 years this week. I&#8217;ve been so happy with their service that I thought I&#8217;d offer a review.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>top 4 reasons<\/b> you should consider Linode for your hosting needs (I&#8217;m sure there are 6 more reasons, but I&#8217;m time limited today):<\/p>\n<p><b>Reason 1. Automatic Upgrades<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Every year or so, I wake up to an email from Linode telling me I can have more disk space or RAM on my server. Adding it is super easy: just login to their web site and click a few buttons. Today I&#8217;ve got 490 MB of RAM and 16 GB of disk, and I&#8217;m still only using their least expnsive option.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reason 2. Huge Internet Speeds<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Linode servers have great Internet connection speeds. I regularly get over 50 Mbits\/second.<\/p>\n<p><b>Reason 3. Customer Service<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Linode support team is very sharp. They know what they&#8217;re talking about, and they are very helpful. This is more than can be said for <b>many<\/b> other support organizations. I&#8217;ve only needed to open a support ticket a cople times, and on both occasions, the Linode support staff responded within an hour and gave me all the information I needed, not only to solve my problem but to prevent my problem from happening again in the future<\/p>\n<p><b>Reason 4. Cost<\/b><\/p>\n<p>At $20\/month, Linode is very affordable for what you get: Full root access, nearly any Linux distribution you want, lots of RAM and disk, and good CPU speed (my Linode has 4 CPUs).<\/p>\n<p>After 7 years, I very highly recommend Linode as a Virtual Private Server hosting service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just ocurred to me that I&#8217;ve been using Linode as my hosting provider for 7 years this week. I&#8217;ve been so happy with their service that I thought I&#8217;d offer a review. The top 4 reasons you should consider Linode for your hosting needs (I&#8217;m sure there are 6 more reasons, but I&#8217;m time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-and-cruft","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesmithfam.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}