An hour of talking about nothing. Why not ask broader questions, and get more interesting answers?

I noticed that as well. He basically answered nothing even though they were taking a pretty hostile stance towards Tim.

> get a excellent magazine running profitable in less then one month

That is primarily due to his large influential niche audience and friends in the tech media. Joe Schmoe could do the same thing, better, but without that free media exposure it would go nowhere, lost in the open sea that is the App Store.

Be that as it may, he pulled it off. A lot of journalist have a great following and a brand name these days as well.

I suspect the same model will flourish for those with similar niche audiences

Interesting. I think this could be particularly popular if Linode introduces some fully supported stacks for common configs. Although at that point they would really just become a managed provider, but perhaps that is the natural progression of at least part of the hosting business.

This is deeply concerning for those of us who have business dependencies on linode. It certainly shakes confidence, at the very least.

Your skill set is strong and in demand, you have nothing to worry about. Enjoy the holidays and treat this as unpaid time off, I suspect you'll be employed before the end of next month.

What region are you in, or is remote work a requirement? Most interviewers like an in-person at some point, just a thought.

Very excited about this. Wordpress hosting for medium and large sites is a major pain point that I've dealt with on multiple occasions. Once a site grows beyond the cheapy hosting plans, there was a huge gap in the mid range before something like VIP became a possibility.

I am interested to see how existing sites migrate over, it looks like only a group of approved themes are allowed. Presumably, those looking to migrate will have to recreate their existing UI experience on one of those pre-approved themes.

The theme issue actually smells like a decent business opportunity for savvy Wordpress theme designers. If someone offers quick turnaround ports of old themes to supported themes, which is almost entirely CSS, I bet they'll get a lot of business as more and more sites want to move over to the Enterprise plan.

Anyone made the jump yet? How was the experience?

In my experience, Linode is the best roll-your-own you-are-on-your-own cloud provider. Obviously they are aimed at the savvy but it's reliable, cheap while being easy to estimate costs, simple to configure and expand, pretty good documentation, plus it doesn't have the learning curve or linguistic peculiarities of Amazon.

Regarding Rackspace, I've had good experience with them when working at mid-size and larger companies. Unfortunately I've had the opposite experience when functioning as a freelancer, working with startups, or as an entrepreneur myself. Rackspace didn't even respond to sales inquiries. Initially I figured this was a strangely repeated fluke, but other small companies and entrepreneurs I've spoken to have reported the exact same thing, where they send an inquiry to Rackspace or ask to speak with a sales engineer, and they get no response. Nothing, zip, nada. I find that very strange, and am speculating RS no longer wants to deal with the growing pains and frequent support requests of startups, but it certainly makes the decision to stick with Linode or EC2 much easier.

I don't have much experience with dedicated anymore, but have repeatedly heard good things about ServInt and SingleHop. Have also heard good things about Firehost for a managed cloud provider. I would love to hear others opinion and experience on any of the aforementioned companies though.

I really do not understand why people keep recommending Linode on here. Apart from their woeful and disgraceful security policies some of their data centres e.g. Fremont is very unreliable.

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I defended you the last time this came up; this time I think you're being wholly unfair. A single incident -- severe though it was -- does not make "woeful and disgraceful security policies". And the only data center that they have that has occasional issues, as far as I know, is Fremont, and it's worth pointing out that Fremont has had less downtime than AWS this year.

I use their Dallas and Newark data centers currently. I have had zero downtime this year, which puts Linode at the head of the pack in terms of reliability.

So if you don't understand why people keep recommending Linode, it's because:

1. The prices are fair;

2. The service is as reliable as anything else out there, and in some cases, far more reliable;

3. The performance is good;

4. The support is blow-you-out-of-the-water fantastic;

5. The software (their management console) is pretty good;

6. There are very very few complaints overall, other than their handling of the Bitcoin incident.

I agree that they should have handled that incident differently, and that they still haven't taken proper care of it. However, you're being otherwise dishonest in your portrayal of Linode.

Linode also offers native IPv6 support, and they will route you a /64 on request.