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Comment by whakojacko | Hacker News Reader

"Linode offers some kind of customization so you can make machines with more RAM, or more bandwidth if you need to." Any details on how this works?

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Once you have a node you can upgrade the specs a little. Short of transferring to an entirely new node, you can boost your bandwidth, get some extra RAM, and add some disk space, within limits without changing what host machine you're on due to the slack they have.

Separate to that, Linode also appear to support significantly larger packages than their pricing table indicates. Once you're in the system, there are references to things like "Linode 16384" accounts, etc.

Ah, I see in the "Extras" page. The pricing seems dumb though-they want $20/mo extra for 360mb of ram, but for an additional $20/mo I might as well update my 512 to a linode 1024 and get an additional 512mb of ram, as well as more cpu power/disk/bandwidth.

I think that is exactly the point, if you look at all of the extras (bandwidth,disk,ram) the pricing all comes out to when you reach the amount for each (bandwidth, disk, or ram) upgraded server it is the same for both extras or upgraded server.

There's only so much resources on each physical host - when you hit the resource usage of an additional Linode, you've effectively used up the space that could have gone to another customer. So you have to pay their rent as well.

Although this really doesn't make that much sense for bandwidth... but when you look at the raw price for bandwidth it's not all that bad anyway.

They aren't listed on the home page, but as soon as you click through to "sign up," you can select plans up to 20GB.

I've bought additional IPs for our main server that we are hosting multiple SSL sites on. Extra IP is $1/month, I think you can get up to 5 extra IPs on one machine.

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