[wplug-board] Linode has a $10 plan

[Pat Barron]

On 6/16/2014 11:26 AM, Justin Smith wrote:
>
> Ah. I wasn't even aware that anything like preupgrade existed. Well, 
> with that feather in our cap, I'm perfectly fine sticking with CentOS. 
> It looks like they've already released preliminary builds of CentOS 7.
>

Yeah, it took me a long time to find preupgrade too.  It is always 
confused me why Red Hat doesn't 1) publicize it more, and 2) install it 
by default.

Of course, I don't know if even preupgrade would help us on a 
Linode-hosted VPS - because they don't actually give you a "full" 
virtual machine (with a BIOS and all, that can "boot" like a physical 
machine), they load the kernel "out of band" and start it. So the kernel 
actually doesn't get loaded from the disk image. Which I'm sure would 
make a preupgrade-based upgrade scenario ... interesting.  In that you 
could wind up with a shiny new upgraded installation, but still running 
the old kernel....

Not sure if Digital Ocean does this differently.

--Pat.

P.S.  If you get some time, could you repost the Linode information you 
posted to wplug-internet?  I would be interested in hearing the larger 
Technology Committee (and other followers...) take on the new Linode 
plan....
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