The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

Post by ihowlatthemoon » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

  CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           L5520  @ 2.27GHz
  Number of cores: 8
  CPU frequency:  2266.788 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 988 MB
  Total amount of swap: 255 MB
  System uptime:   8 days, 12:03,
  I/O speed:  69.9 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 8.96s
  Download 100MB file: 47.2MB/s

  CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz
  Number of cores: 2
  CPU frequency:  2800.086 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 1993 MB
  Total amount of swap: 255 MB
  System uptime:   2 min,
  I/O speed:  638 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 5.10s
  Download 100MB file: 146MB/s

Post by astrodust » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:34 PM UTC

kylec wrote: post #40

kbar13 wrote: post #32

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5c a month savings is worth keeping your Linode on old hardware with 512MB of ram?!??!?

The stuff I have there (mostly lightly-trafficked PHP sites) is not memory-intensive. Why rent a 3000 sq ft office when I only need a 1500 (or even 750) sq ft one? And yes, if I could halve ($20 -> $10) my monthly cost, it would most definitely be welcome.

Post by nhaehnle » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:38 PM UTC

ckozlowski wrote: post #62

opendais wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tl;dr: If you had 40 VMs on 8 cores before, you have 10 on 2 cores now. It is the same ratio of VMs:Cores but with stronger processors. Long version: "If you take the upgrade, you inherit the new plan specs, vcpus and all. We’ve greatly reduced the contention on these new machines compared to our old structure, and in testing this new arrangement provides much more consistent CPU time with less potential for steal. W…

Makes a lot of sense. If your hosts have, say, dual 4-way CPUs, and you're giving your VMs 8 vCPUs, then a single VM can execute per clock cycle since a VM needs all of it's vCPUs made available to the guest OS. With 8 VMs, that means one VM is executing every 8th clock cycle. If you "downgrade" those VMs to 2 vCPUs, then 4 VMs can execute per clock cycle, and that VM can now execute every other clock cycle instead o…

Post by 15characterlimi » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:41 PM UTC

mcone wrote: post #53

tszming wrote: post #49

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This is not true. Linode allow you to attach additional IPs to your Linode at $1/month, for example, I have one Linode which has 6 IPs attached for only $25/month. I still can't find a company has this kind of flexibility.

Right, but they provide additional IP addresses only if you can provide evidence that you need them (e.g., SSL certs).

Post by pavanky » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC