Moved Linode VPS to London

This week Linode expanded to London, England. The latency from the Netherlands is about 18ms, pretty fast! Today, I moved my VPS from Newark, NJ, USA to London by 'cloning' it using Linode's great web interface. Copying ~6GB worth of images took 1 hour and 30 minutes. During the transfer the server was down, but the improved latency and download speed for Europe certainly was worth it.

I participated in the Backup Service Beta with my US node. Although I never needed to revert to a backup, it felt safe and it seemed to work very nicely. The beta program is not available yet in the UK, let's hope it will be anytime soon.

Altogether with a very positive result of a VPS performance comparison recently, I certainly can recommend Linode.com as your VPS. If you want to give it a try, please use the following referral code: 9e07717ba17b7283ecc8d000a8b0737b17c64a3f .