cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27036657
Hey everyone,
I’ve been using Linode for a long time and have always been happy with their service. The performance is solid, and their tech support has been great whenever I’ve needed help. However, I’ve started to feel the pinch with their pricing—it’s definitely on the expensive side.
Recently, I decided to try out Hostinger’s VPS offering to spin up a Bluesky PDS and see how it compares. So far, I’ve had a good experience with their tech support as well, but I’m curious about the bigger picture.
Has anyone here used both Linode and Hostinger VPS? If so, how do they compare in terms of:
- Performance (CPU, RAM, disk speed, etc.)
- Uptime and reliability
- Ease of use (control panel, setup, etc.)
- Value for money
I’m especially curious about how Hostinger manages to charge so much less than Linode. Is there a catch, or is it just a different business model? If you’ve used both, do you think Hostinger is a better option overall, or is Linode worth the extra cost?
Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!
Thanks in advance!
No direct answer, but even as a US resident you should consider going EU.
Most hosting providers dangle convenience (“one click solution”) to make clueless customers pay way too fucking much. Or customer service, which I always found to be about the same regardless of price: good enough.
FWIW I pay ~€7/mo for a full (root access, self-installed) VPS with 80GB storage, 4GB RAM, 4 CPUs (edit: this was a few years ago. Now their cheapest offer is €8/mo for 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage).
The same would cost $72/mo (with less storage) on Linode 🤣Which provider did you use? Also, Hetzner costs the same but with 8GB RAM.
That was a few years ago. Prices and offers change constantly. Netcup.
linode is super-expensive, so it isn’t that hard to be cheaper. we had to use hostinger for a while (< 10 instances concurrently) and I didn’t like it. also I think they want you to prepay for the year which is a major turnoff. they use an inferior virtualization system, forgot which, and there were issues with availability. this was all about two years ago, no idea about their current offering and state, but I remember being glad to be rid of them.
I don’t know about Linode, but with Hostinger you get a resource cap on CPU usage. If you put your VPS to crunch something you will be throttled down on CPU. I once tried importing Wikipedia on my VPS and had my CPU throttled down. I pay for the cheapest VPS with only one CPU. In this case you don’t really get the “full” VPS to yourself…
