Additional bandwidth packages?
I'm looking into signing up, and I was wondering whether Linode sells any sort of add-on bandwidth packages? I saw on the FAQ that the standard overage is $0.10/GB, which isn't that bad, but I was curious whether you could prepay for larger amounts at a discount (e.g. buy extra chunks of 100GB/mo for $5/each or something, then pay any additional overage at the usual rate)?
I run a web service which serves as an intermediary for uploading photos to Facebook from a popular desktop photo organizer. The workflow is something like:
1. The user uploads photos from their computer, which arrive in a specific POST format from this desktop software
2. The photos are stored on the server for 2 minutes or so while the user selects an FB album or makes a new one
3. The photos are transferred to Facebook using their API and are deleted from my server
The end result is that I need a lot of bandwidth (~400GB last month for ~3mil photos), but not particularly much CPU, RAM, or disk space (as there's no heavy data processing or database work, the photos themselves are transferred as-is). So it would be awesome if I could get a 360 or 540 Linode with some extra bandwidth for less than upgrading to a 720 or 1080 Linode. It's been running on Dreamhost so far, so I know I'm not using anywhere near a GB of RAM, or they would have kicked me out long ago
I've also heard of other providers selling unmetered bandwidth at a certain rate (e.g. $X/Mbps/month), which might work, though buying per GB might work better since certain times/days have higher usage than others.
Has anyone heard of something like this being available from Linode? Any information or suggestions would be appreciated!
Cheers!
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I dunno if Linode would be willing to work out some sort of deal with you. You'll have to wait for them to respond!
Edit: Whoops, emoticon abuse.
But the way Linode pricing is structured ($20/month for an extra 200GB of transfer). You could get 2 360s, have 2 servers and get 400GB as bandwidth is pooled for all Linodes under your account.
They price the ram and storage upgrades the same way
@waldo:
You could get 2 360s, have 2 servers and get 400GB as bandwidth is pooled for all Linodes under your account.
Good idea, thanks! I hadn't thought of doing it that way.
Although, consider that 2x360 costs the same as 1x720. A single VPS is easier to manage, and even if you don't strictly speaking need extra RAM/disk/CPU, it never hurts to throw more RAM at things.
The downside to a 1x720 is, of course, lack of redundancy.