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

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

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Post by ckozlowski »

eli wrote: post #38
bfrog wrote: post #33

I'm actually a little unhappy, it looks like they reduced the CPU count for my $20/mo instance. At this point there's basically no reason to stay with them now.

I would encourage you to run a benchmark before deciding that 2 vCPUs is necessarily worse than 8 vCPUs running in a different architecture.

In a VMware environment, I'm often educating my users that more vCPUs doesn't necessarily equate to higher performance, as the delays incurred in co-scheduling increase with the number of vCPUs.

For VMs that are not hypervisor-aware, the hypervisor must have all of that VM's vCPUs available at execution time since it cannot always anticipate which vCPUs the guest OS will execute against.

With fewer vCPUs, one might see what you're alluding to; better utilization and lower wait states because it's easier to schedule 2 CPUs consistantly than 8 CPUs on a host running multiple VMs.

Of course, that's in a VMware environment, so forgive me if Linode's hypervisor of choice avoids this problem I'm sure they're using KVM or Xen or something along those lines, maybe they're not as susceptible.

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

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Post by kawsper »

davexunit wrote: post #36

Cool news, but their website now has the same lame design as DigitalOcean. I liked the old site layout better.

Me too, but fortunately their administration system is still old-school.

I think their platform needs some love, it is a bit clunky to work with sometimes. But they are my favorite host.

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

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Post by mcone »

tszming wrote: post #49
mcone wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One reason Linode doesn't offer "tiny boxes" is that they, like other companies, are worried about running out of IPv4 addresses.

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).

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

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Post by mwcampbell »

kylec wrote: post #30
TillE wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market How big is that market, really? I keep a small VPS around for whatever (I like Hetzner), and I'm sure lots of nerds are the same. But for any usage that's even a little bit serious, $20/month is peanuts.

What if you want to have several tiny boxes? For example, if you want to host a mail server as a separate box for security, that's another $20/month. Or what if you need to use a different Linux distro for something? Another $20/month. A few examples like that add up fast.

Containers, e.g. through Docker, are good for that kind of thing.

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

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Post by kyrra »

I forgot to benchmark the disk before I upgraded but here are some simple disk benchmarks on an upgraded linode (the $20 plan, now with SSD)

  $ dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
  1024+0 records in
  1024+0 records out
  1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.31593 s, 816 MB/s

  $ hdparm -tT /dev/xvda
  /dev/xvda:
   Timing cached reads:   19872 MB in  1.98 seconds = 10020.63 MB/sec
   Timing buffered disk reads: 2558 MB in  3.00 seconds = 852.57 MB/sec
Upgraded cpuinfo model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz

Old cpuinfo model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5520 @ 2.27GHz

CPUs compared: http://ark.intel.com/compare/75277,40201

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

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Post by kilburn »

geekam wrote: post #35
h4pless wrote: post #16

I notice that Linode talked a good bit about their bandwidth and included outbound bandwidth in their pricing model which DO does not. I wonder if DO has a similar model or if transfer capacity the only thing you have control over.

I do not understand the difference between outbound bandwidth vs the transfer. Can you explain a bit please?

If you read below the price tables you'll get a good hint:

> What happens if I exceed my monthly transfer quota?

> You will be invoiced $0.10 for each GB over your pooled network transfer quota. Please note that all inbound traffic is free and will not count against your quota.

Bandwidth is the maximum Mbps that your VPS can spill out at any moment, whereas transfer is the maximum amount of per-month cumulative traffic that you can send out before incurring on additional traffic costs.

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

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Post by jaequery »

relaxatorium wrote: post #7

This seems pretty fantastic, I am excited to upgrade and think the SSD storage is going to be really helpful for improving the performance of my applications hosted there. That said, I am not an expert on CPU virtualization but I did notice that the new plans are differently phrased than the old ones here. The old plans all talked about 8 CPU cores with various 1x, 2x priority levels ( https://blog.linode.com/2013/04…

cpu counts dont mean much in terms of performance. but from a strict performance standpoint, their E5 2680's are amongst the tops in the industry (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html). i'm pretty sure DO's is somewhere around 1/10th the performance of Linode's in terms of CPU power. you are getting a really good deal here w/ Linode, I dont think any cloud providers are at this level right now.
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