So how are these new changes affect the current customer?

• If you are on the annual plan that cost you around $8.50 per month, the new account will cost around $10 per month.
• What do you get for the $1.50 diff per month?
  • Same 100GB disk space but now is SSD disk space
  • from 512MB ram instance becomes 1Gb instance
  • from 600MB bandwidth to 1TB bandwidth
• In case you don’t understand what SSD hosting is, you can take a look here. In short “SSD hosting is typically more resistant to physical shock, run more quietly, have lower access time, and less latency.”
• You can file a support ticket to upgrade, or you can do it yourself, most likely you will get a new IP address since the new SSD hosting will be on the different box.
• If you were using the higher ram instance from Webfaction during the old day, this new release helps you cut around 50% cost ( the old price for 2GB instance is $40).

Enough of the pro, how about some con part.

• You still don’t have root or su access.
• There is no option to adding ram only; you can only upgrade to a higher tier package.
• For each higher tier upgrade, you need to migrate, there is no option to resize on demand.

What so good about Wefaction?

• Webfaction has all the typical hosting features with a lightweight control panel
• Webfaction supports multiple languages includes PHP, Ruby, and Python.
• Webfaction provides quick installer for many popular scripts.
• Webfaction provides you shell access.

What users are suitable for to use Webfaction?

• You just start to learn using the command prompt.
• You want to use command prompt for some task but don’t wish to manage a server.
• You just want to focus on development.
• You just start step into development.

I been using them since 2011 until today I still think they are number 1 in term of “Developer-friendly shared hosting” with the release of new SSD plan, I highly recommend them.

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I still remember the old day where Linode vs Slicehost , then Slicehost been acquired by rackspace and people start moving to Linode,  but for the past 1 year Linode seem like a bit quiet , just when everyone think that Linode is no longer being competitive , They release the 3 major update since last month.

1. The Network – increase the outbound transfer by 1000%
2. The Hardware – changing the CPU to 8 core.
3. The RAM – upgrade ram for 100%

the price for all these improvement ? just the 0.05 cent to round-up their current plan, don’t forget their praised support and well collection of library.

some user are compare Digital Ocean with Linode , if purely compare just the pricing, Linode is more expensive than DO for the same setup, but I believe Linode is more mature to handle your production , I won’t mind putting some test project on DO. If you need an developer friendly VPS  take Linode , if you need a developer friendly shared hosting take webfaction.

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As a developer , I m not really good in server admin, for the past one year I been trying my best to learn but I still don’t really like it. Shared hosting is not suitable for developer since there are many restriction and you always affected by the users on the same server ( unless something like Webfaction , dedicated memory for share hosting) , managed VPS is quite expensive because most of the time they are forcing you to use a control panel in order for them to offer manage hosting, but after you install a control panel , more resources are required, your tiny VPS might need to upgrade again to run smoothly, that’s why it can cost a bomb.

The only choice I have is to pick up some basic server admin skill and host up on Linode , but what I really prefer is some hosting that is simple , budget , dedicated resource, easy to scale and no need to manage the server. I use to think Media Temple’s Grid Hosting might be what I need , but it seem like it doesn’t really meet the expectation. I always wish that one day maybe Heroku or Google App Engine can finally support PHP and  I can no need to worry about server anymore.

But not any more , there are 3 Cloud Platform for PHP now.

• PHP Fog
• Cloud Control
• Orchestra

Share with me if you have try any of this ? I original writing this post to talk about my PHP Fog experience, it seem like it will become a rather long post,  I guess I will leave it to my next post.

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So what happen is Linode update their product line today, their entry level VPS now is starting from 512MB in stead of 360MB, which mean now you can get a 512MB unmanaged VPS for $19.95 ! This deal is not coming from some oversell VPS provider, you actually get a XEN VPS 512MB for just $19.95 plus you getting some great support from Linode and developer focus community.

Personally I feel that Linode is doing a great  job this time, if they can handle the mass request from the market and getting everything under control, this might be really bring in tons of reputation and customer for them.But other this, maybe Linode should start to work with some other Partner to provide more VPS or developer related service ? example like VPS.net , they been work with some partner and provide free control panel and code hosting account.

If you feel like give Linode a try , please use my referral code : 918fd8bfbc25162ecfbe1235ad8c83e5499ec29f or visit Linode by the clicking on the image below.

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Since they are so great , why am I leaving ?

• My pingdom monitor did report some short down time which i believe it happen due to memory issue, this blog seem like consume quite a lot of memory.
• I always want to get my hand dirty on VPS.
• I going to spend more $$ on VPS , cancel this account can reduce my hosting spending.

Now this blog is live on Linode VPS and it seem like it using less memory and having better performance, but the first few day of the server configuration nearly knock me down, I almost want to move back to Webfaction at some point in time, in the end i manage to resolve the memory issue.

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How to easily setup LEMP on Linode? I just make use of Linode’s StackScripts feature

1. Select the Deploying using StackScripts links when you deploy your new Linode, select LEMP StackScripts and filling some of the fields, it will auto deploy your VPS.
2. Once the VPS deployment done, the StackScripts will start running , it should take about 20~30 min , just wait for your VPS displaying nginx welcome message means the setup is done.
3. You will find that the nginx init script seem like broken, you can’t really issue restart or stop command, just follow this article to create a new nginx init script .
4. One important thing to take note is the path for Daemon, it shall be DAEMON=/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx
5. The final step is changing of socket by following this article.
6. Don’t forget to change the date time in your /usr/local/lib/php/php.ini to avoid date time error in your php log.

Some reference , there are different way to setup PHP with nginx

• php build in FastCGI server
• spawn-fcgi – setup article on Linode’s Library
• php fpm – setup article on Interface Lab

Base on my research it seem like  PHP-FPM is winning in term of performance and it will be integrate into PHP core, that’s why it should be the first choice if you try to setup a LEMP box , but since you need to manually compile PHP, it will be quite troublesome to do upgrade.

If you find it this post is helpful and planning to get a Linode box , please use my referral code , this will help me fund my box, thanks.

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