As we grow and work hard to reduce costs, increase scale, and optimize the efficiency of our operations, we are able to pass on the benefits of our efforts back to our customers. In fact, we have a very long history of increasing the value of our plans by adding resources and reducing pricing.
We are pleased to announce that we are lowering pricing again, this time for data transfer. Effective September 1st, 2011, all customers will no longer be charged for any inbound data transfer. We are also reducing our transfer overage fees to be the same as the pre-pay rates.
All incoming bandwidth into your Linode Cloud server or NodeBalancer is 100% free of charge, in all of our facilities. This means you can upload an unlimited amount of data to your Linode without having to pay for any of the incoming data transfer. As an example, if you were paying for extra transfer (beyond what comes bundled with your Linodes), and 40% of your total transfer was inbound, you will now be paying 40% less in transfer costs than you were previously.
We are also eliminating the penalty one would be paying for going over their transfer quota. The old ‘overage fee’ was $0.15/GB and is now the same as the pre-pay rate: $0.10/GB. One less thing for you to worry about, since the pricing is now the same.
Cloud Bandwidth Pricing (Effective September 1st, 2011):
NOTE: Linodes come bundled with transfer, which is then combined into the Transfer Pool.
| Data Transfer | Previous Pricing | New Pricing |
|---|---|---|
| Inbound | Deducted from Pool, then $0.15/GB | FREE |
| Outbound | Deducted from Pool, then $0.15/GB | Deducted from Pool, then $0.10/GB |
We appreciate you and hope this saves you lots of money.
Enjoy!
-Chris
Comments (59)
Woot! Awesome!
Well done! With this kind of support and service, I can see why so many people choose linode and I do not regret my decision to use linode one bit! Now if only linode would add a pay by the hour or whatever server option 🙂 then I wouldn’t need to go anywhere for anything ever again! 😀
-Michael.
This is a great step forward. Thanks!
Sweet! Thanks, keep up the awesome work!
Nice! I can see this being very very useful!
Jeez, this company just keeps giving and giving!
This is just another in a long list of reasons why I love Linode. Keep up the good work 😀
Great!
As always, thanks a lot and keep up the good work.
This is why I love you guys; a good deal of my transfer is inbound.
Thanks again for all you do!
Linode is awesome, long live Linode!
Why do you make it so hard? For me to leave Linode? I find my happiness troubling.
Thank you guys, it’s much appreciated! Keep up the good work!
Kristof
Wow, I love Linode.
Thank you, you are best
Cool! Thanks Linode team!
This is great news. I just had to upgrade my linode last month because I ran out of bandwidth.
Smart move! Good stuff.
so cool~
Expensive transfer rates are one of the main reasons why people stay away from Linode.
Well done! I am happy to see these reductions in price 🙂
Wonderful, please keep up the awesome service and the excellent work! 🙂
I love you guys.
This is excellent news !
Fantastic, that is quite interesting in order to use several Linodes and have one (or several) of them as backup servers, because all inbound traffic would be free.
Could you consider the traffic between linodes of the same user as free also? That would make outbound/inbound traffic from Linode to Linode free as well, and would be perfect for that task…
Anyway, great news!!
Awesome! Thanks.
So, you’re saving us money and not f***ing us over?
WHY ARE YO USO AWESOME?!
Per usual, you guys are great! Thank you!
Great News !
thank you !
@javipas As long as we’re talking about inside a single datacenter, anything on your private v4 IP, or that goes to another node in the DC using a v6 IP, is already free.
It’s reasons like this why I stick with Linode over others. They do these wonderful things that customers appreciate.
You guys are great! In hard times you cut us a break instead of sticking it to us like most others.
Thank you!
This are great news! Great company!
This is awesome news! Thanks Linode! 🙂
Hi, this is great!
As I use quite a bit of data transfer, I’m hoping this will save me 50GB or so, perhaps more.
Thanks again, Linode and all employees, the upgrades are great!
Gotta love Linode!
@akerl, thanks for the clarification, didn’t know that 🙂
Even greater news then!!
Greetings!
Great Guys – as always!!!
Awesome 🙂
Thanks for this Onam gift. Its Onam days here in Kerala, India. Happy Onam 🙂
Less to worry about is why I stay with Linode. Thanks!
thanks for this giveaway, appreciate it..
Gotta say, I’m very impressed with Linode so far… And this just makes things even better. 🙂
I love you by whole heart! Thank you very much.
I love bacon, but I love Linode even more! You guys never stop, and that is why you are MORE than worth every penny. Thanks guys, keep rockin’ in the free world!
You guys rock!
This is great! Long live Linode! Please don’t get bought out!
Thank you so much! Awesomes!!!
This is why people keep coming back to linode for vps services.
Thanks, Love you guys!
Woot! This is a welcome change. Not that I had much to worry about bandwidth wise (my VPS is used for experimentation and other linux work) but making it so I don’t get penalized when I decide to update the packages on it makes it better. Thanks!
If incoming bandwidth is now effectively “unlimited” is there any potential for resource hogs to create contention issues?
Is incoming bandwidth subject to the default throttle of 50Gbit per account?
I’m just curious how Linode would ensure our incoming bandwidth can’t be tied up by other accounts. I don’t know a lot of technical details about how all this works though.
<3 Linode 😀
You guys ROCK! This is perfect. Just when I thought EC2 was getting cheaper, you guys matched up! 🙂
That means I’ll upgrade my Debian box way more often
Wow! you guys are AWESOME! This is going to make our business cost much more competitive. Thank you very much guys!
I’m glad I made such a great decision in choosing Linode as my hosting provider. You guys are amazing!
You guys are amazing! Thinking of getting a 1GB linode now.
I’m floored… Are you a real company or just some rich guy that likes to give stuff way? 😉
I’m planning on moving to linode soon, this is great news for me as I am actually looking for more bandwidth.
Brilliant to hear!
Looked into Linode cloud services a few months back and have only just come across this, certainly makes Linode a front running contender for my services!
~ Jamie
Thx for the good service. We’re happy camper so far.
One question – we currently have 3 nodes in different DCs. Do you calculate traffic between nodes?
thx~
YAY! 😀