[wplug-board] Linode has a $10 plan

[Justin Smith]

I just saw this on Hacker News: https://www.linode.com/pricing[1] 

It looks like Linode came through with a low-cost plan after all! It's about 
half as expensive as what we're currently paying. The new plan 
compared to our current plan: 

*1 full core vs 8 virtual cores w/low priority
*1GB RAM vs 1GB RAM
*24GB SSD storage vs 24GB hard disk storage
*2TB transfer bandwidth vs 2TB transfer bandwidth

We'd have less CPU power, but as Vance has said, the only intensive 
task we run on the server is Litecoin mining. I'd be willing to stop mining 
and sell what Litecoin we've accumulated. The real bottleneck in most 
computers is the hard drive, so moving to an SSD-based VPS would, in 
my opinion, make much more of a difference than having 8 virtual cores 
with low priority.

It's worth mentioning that Digital Ocean[2] has one-upped Linode's $10 
plan: it offers 30GB of disk space instead of 24GB. Everything else is 
identical.

I'm excited about moving WPLUG.org to a new server, but I'm not looking 
forward to migrating our data. That's my only gripe with CentOS. Since 
our participation rate is still a bit low, we may want to consider 
something Debian-based so that future upgrades, if necessary, can go 
a bit smoother. I'm not a Debian aficionado, myself, but it may work out 
long-term.

Let's talk about this tomorrow evening.

-- 
*Justin Smith*
GNU/Linux System Administrator

/"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. 
That'll do them in!"/
/-Author Unknown/

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[1] https://www.linode.com/pricing
[2] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
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