ohhh yesss. DO is good for some locations like Southeast Asia but loving this upgrade for my London and Tokyo Linodes
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
#92These upgrades are impressive but they are a bit too late to the game. DO still has these advantages besides the cheap monthly price:
- DO has excellent and easy to understand API - Step by step guides on setting up and running anything - Minimal and simple
To entice me, it's no longer just a matter of price, DO has extra value added, largely due to their simplicity.
Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#93So this makes Lindode practically on par with DO's $20 plan. Up till now $20 plan at DO was better now its just the choice of the brand.
But here is one thing that DO provides and I think Linode too should, you get the choice to spin up a $5 instance anytime in your account for any small project or a test instance which you cannot on Linode.
Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#94Does any of LINode or DigitalOcean offer plans without any SSD? I couldn't find any. I just want to install some personal projects there for which even SSD's are overkill...
Overkill never hurt anybody. Would you really want to ditch the SSD even if no other numbers changed at all? Even if you don't need it, I don't see why it's a bad thing.
Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#95Most interesting part in this great upgrade is that they went from 8CPU setup to 2CPU setup. But yeah - 2x more RAM, SSDs will guarantee that I'm not going to switch anytime soon. Sadly I need to wait a week until this will be available in London.
They did upgrade the cpus though - "Linodes will now receive Intel’s latest high-end Ivy Bridge E5-2680.v2 full-power server-grade processors."
Yes. That's good. And Caker also wrote in blog comments: "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. We think it’s great and totally worth the move, otherwise we wouldn’t have done it."
So by their estimates 2 now should outperform previous 8.
Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#96DO's biggest problem is their lack of "zero-downtime snapshot backup and upgrading". i've not used Linode but anyone know if theirs is any different?
Upgrades/downgrades requires transferring all your data from one server to another - so that means downtime. The bigger the server, the more downtime in transferring. As for backups, Linode backups seem to get a bad reputation. They do take a snapshot of a running instance - but reports from the forums indicate that they regularly fail, leaving you with a missing backup at some points. The only way of restoring a bac…
upgrades for ram and storage does not have to have any downtime. same for snapshots, through LVM/ZFS, they can be nearly instant in most cases. it just seems like DO have not been able to figure this out for whatever reasons.
Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#97It looks like Linode are still leaving the "incredibly cheap tiny box" market to DO. Linode's cheapest option is $20/month, which makes it slightly less useful for the kind of "so cheap you don't even think about it" boxes that DO provide.
As someone who has used both Linode and "low end box" services, both have their place. Two observations:
1) I feel like Linode offers a level of support that the others don't offer. There are lower end providers that do offer good support, but it's not as consistently good as Linode. Were they to start offering cheaper $5 or $10 a month plans, they would be challenged when it comes to continuing to offer that level of support.
2) Observationally, it seems to me that Linode customers on average tend to be more serious about their usage than those who are looking for a <$5/month VPS. Go to the IRC channels for each company and see who hangs out there. That said, this should only matter to you if you are concerned about who your neighbours may be on a VM host, if you plan on being part of the IRC community, or if you are concerned about how reputable your IP address looks given what block it belongs to.
Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#98I 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…
Those benchmarks are pointless on VM because of the memory caching...
You're probably right. Do you think it's cache at the VM level before writing to disk. Would writing more data out help at all?
$ dd bs=1M count=40960 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
40960+0 records in
40960+0 records out
42949672960 bytes (43 GB) copied, 48.455 s, 886 MB/sRe: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#99I 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…
This is mine old $20 located in London, doing exactly nothing, I just created it last week, it seems very slow in comparison: 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, 13,6791 s, 78,5 MB/s hdparm -tT /dev/xvda /dev/xvda: Timing cached reads: 3580 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1794.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 336 MB in 3.01 seconds =…
Here's mine, with SSD upgrade:
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, 2.17496 s, 494 MB/s
hdparm -tT /dev/xvda
/dev/xvda:
Timing cached reads: 18560 MB in 1.98 seconds = 9358.78 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 2510 MB in 3.00 seconds = 836.61 MB/sec`Re: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more
#100Bummer, they're taking away 8 cores for the cheap plans and replacing it with 2. Does anyone know if the new processors will offset this difference? I don't know the specs of the processors.
Linode's announcements usually come in triples...I'm excited for number three. Let's hope its some kind of cheap storage service.