Linode Turns 7, Big RAM Increase
This is a coincidence. I had a funny experience with Linode just today!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."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."So I checked my email. Part of the joy of my style of travelling is not checking email for a month at a stretch.They deleted my linode. It´s completely gone.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.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.I like linode. I just feel sick right now.On the one hand, I´m an idiot.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?!?I need a drink. Oh, yeah, Go Linode!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.