[wplug-internet] Linode upgrades

[Pat Barron]

There's a board meeting tonight, this will be on the agenda.

Not sure how this will affect us, as we've prepaid for a year's worth of 
service (i.e., will they charge us the difference, or what).

--Pat.

On 04/14/2013 2:31 AM, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> Linode has made some upgrades to their hardware configuration.
>
> First, they have doubled the RAM in each plan
> <http://blog.linode.com/2013/04/09/linode-nextgen-ram-upgrade/>.
> This upgrade is available to us now.
>
> However, there has been a change in pricing from $19.95/month to
> $20.00/month.  In order for us to upgrade, the Board or membership
> would have to approve the additional expenditure.  There will be
> some downtime (less than 1 hour) as we are migrated to a new host.
>
> Note that our current server setup is under no memory pressure, so
> upgrading would not result in any real benefit to our current
> setup.  It would, however, make running additional services more
> feasible.
>
> Second, the number of CPU cores has doubled from 4 to 8 and has
> moved to newer and higher-spec Sandy Bridge processors
> <http://blog.linode.com/2013/03/18/linode-nextgen-the-hardware/>.
> We have gotten the 8-core bump, but our host is still running on
> the older processors.
>
> We have not yet received a support ticket to migrate onto a newer
> host.  I will post to the list when I see this come through.
> There is no cost associated with this, although there will be some
> downtime as above.  Note that if we take advantage of the RAM
> upgrade, then this step should be unnecessary as the new host will
> have the latest processors.
>
> While we are not in any way starved for CPU, this upgrade is
> mandatory as Linode is retiring the older hardware.
>
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
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