The image really says it all; 141 days of uptime and counting. For myself, an amateur system administrator and website administrator, the VPS company Linode has been a fantastic fit. I first signed up for Linode’s Linode512 package in January of 2012. The package provides me with 512MB of RAM, 20GB of disk space, and my choice of Linux distribution. Linode also allows the use of a custom Linux Kernel but I haven’t yet tried my luck with one.
Linode’s packages aren’t the cheapest in the world, the basic one (Linode512) starts at $20 per month and that goes up depending on how much disk space and RAM you need, but the reliability is worth the price. I installed Ubuntu Server edition (my favorite Linux Server operating system) in February of 2012 and haven’t needed to reboot it since, even after a full system upgrade. The server itself is responsible for hosting five websites, a web proxy server, a VPN server, a DNS server, and a file server and not once have I noticed it skip a beat. While my mere 141 days of uptime may not be hugely impressive how does 272 days sound or 365? I have friends with over a year of consecutive uptime on a Linode server.
Linode also has an extremely simple user interface. Using their free Linode manager users can easily deploy different Linux Distributions, repartition their virtual hard disk, or reformat a misbehaving server. While reformatting is a drastic step, the fact that it can be done with the click of a button should set most folks minds at ease.
For anyone looking for a user-friendly and reliable VPS Linode should be first on the shortlist.
