[ilaksh]

I've been using Linode for more than a decade. I advise hobbyists not to use the cheapest VPS option and neither do I. Its noticeably less performant and just because you are a hobbyist or whatever doesn't mean you can't spend $10-20 per month.

In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies.

[dragonwriter]

> In the United States, people regularly spend more than $10,000 per year on hobbies.

There are some people who spend that much, but its way in the high tail of the distribution.

[winrid]

The $5 machines work fine for a lot of tasks. I have some services in production that people pay for running on $5 machines and they aren't anywhere near capacity, lol.

[antoineMoPa]

As some people pointed out, Linode used to increase the value of existing plans as RAM/disk/CPU got cheaper. Here, we are losing value relative to the price we are paying. They are trying to do just enough to not lose hobbyists, but the message is clear that individual developers are not a priority anymore.