[corford]

Despite being a long time (and happy!) Linode user, the prices and SSD are just too interesting to pass over.

I'm running a small Zarafa based mail server on a 2GB plan with Linode and it could do with more RAM. Perfect opportunity to try out a 4GB "droplet" :)

[corford]

As a quick follow up in case anyone's interested (having just bought and spun up a 4GB instance), the raw vm performance is fantastic but the control panel functionality is fairly basic in comparison to Linode.

AFAICT, you can't:

- Choose different kernel images

- Resize or alter the disk and swap partitions

- Setup a private network interface

- Specify what action to take if the vm hangs (watchdog)

- Run IPv6

- See machine mem, cpu and bandwidth usage from within the web panel

- Setup IP white lists and security email alerts

- See the progress of queued jobs (e.g. taking a vm snapshot)

So, it's fast but pretty basic. For the price I think it's a great deal and I'm sure some (or all) of the missing features above will be added over time as the service matures.

Edit: I've just discovered you do get a progress bar when taking a snapshot but only if you access the snapshot feature from within the server panel (rather than doing it via the "Images" link on the main left hand menu). They also mention the vm gets powered off while the snapshot is taken but mine stayed up...

[_rs]

According to the FAQ there is a private network though I didn't see a way to enable it: https://www.digitalocean.com/faq