Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase
This is a coincidence. I had a funny experience with Linode just today!<p>I´ve been in South America for a few months, and I found out that my bank card (visa) expired a little over a month ago.<p>"Hmm," I thought. "I sure hope that my linode is all right. But it´s been less than two months. They will turn it off, but that is all."<p>So I checked my email. Part of the joy of my style of travelling is not checking email for a month at a stretch.<p>They deleted my linode. It´s completely gone.<p>I feel a little sick ... it was just for personal use (for now), and I have all of the git repos on my local machine as well, but I´m not yet to the point where everything I do on the server is in a repo somewhere. Poof, hundreds of hours of server mangling, gone forever.<p>Literally, if you forget to check your email, they delete it in 20 days. If your bank card expires while you´re out of touch ... for some strange reason ... anyway, instead of warehousing your data for even a few months, they kill you.<p>I like linode. I just feel sick right now.<p>On the one hand, I´m an idiot.<p>On the other hand, 20 days?!?!?! When you know how precious a customers´data is in this context, and it´s purely a question of temporary storage, why?!?<p>I need a drink. Oh, yeah, Go Linode!<p>edit: okay, I´m over it now. Leaving the original, melodramatic writing because, darn it linode, someone from Slicehost posted that Slicehost did it differently, and my reaction is relevant to your business.