[UPHPU] Linode

[MilesTogoe]

Bryan Petty wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Walt Haas <haas at xmission.com> wrote:
>   
>> Anyone have any experience +/- with Linode (http://www.linode.com/) ?
>>     
>
> I own two Linodes now, and have been with Linode for 4 years now.
>
> If what you really need is a VPS and not shared hosting or a dedicated
> server, and you don't do a lot of monthly transfer, Linode definitely
> beats all other VPS providers in my opinion. Network traffic is
> probably the biggest drawback to Linode since they don't provide as
> much as other providers do when comparing price. All other aspects
> make up for that though.
>
> The support is incredibly fast and experienced. Other than the VPS
> itself, they provide an extremely powerful control panel with network,
> CPU, and disk I/O graphs. They also provide primary and secondary DNS
> service (so you don't have to worry about running Bind9 on your VPS or
> finding a secondary in another datacenter) with an API if you happen
> to manage a lot more than just a few domains. The terms of service
> pretty much outlines the basic premise that if what you're doing on
> your VPS is legal, they don't have a problem with it (even if you want
> to run an IRC server).
>
> They've recently been adding features that come in handy for customers
> with multiple Linodes including IP failover and unmetered traffic
> between two linodes (in the same datacenter) over a private gigabit
> network. So clustering Linodes is also possible if you need a load
> balancing setup or otherwise.
>   
Which linux OS's do they support ? (that are on their control panel)