[wplug-internet] New Linode upgrade available

[Justin Smith]

I'd be all in favor of this if they kept the yearly payment discount, but they're not. The last thing we need to do right now is increase costs. 

On the other hand, I have to admit that we're probably not doing ourselves by clinging to a 32-bit version of Centos 5. I'm all in favor of stability, but not necessarily at the cost of having to manually compile software to get anything remotely modern. Besides, Centos 7 will have systemd and Docker support! Happy days! 

I don't think there would be much of an impact on litecoin mining as a result of the core count change. I have two cores on my digital ocean VPS, and one of those going equals the performance we see from four cores at linode. 

I could go either way on this one. I feel like it'd be good to upgrade, but I can see why one would want to leave well enough alone. 

On April 19, 2014 5:49:13 PM EDT, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 04:20:45PM -0400, Pat Barron wrote:
>> Yet another upgrade ... Price is the same as we're currently paying. 
>
>> Should we migrate?
>> 
>>
>https://blog.linode.com/2014/04/17/linode-cloud-ssds-double-ram-much-more/
>
>There are a few downsides.  First, the new VPSes are 64-bit only,
>so we would have to transition from the current 32-bit setup.  I
>don't think this is a major problem given that all the software
>we're using should be available in 64-bit, but there may be
>unforseen glitches.  If we decide for a new VPS, it would be worth
>considering deploying something newer than CentOS 5.
>
>Another issue is the reduction in number of CPUs available.
>Currently we have eight cores available to us, but actual CPU time
>depends on contention with other VPSes on the host machine.  The
>new model at Linode is to dedicate two cores to the $20/mo. VPSes.
>This would impact Justin's litecoin mining, which currently is set
>to use four cores.  This is more of an experiment than a critical
>service, but wanted to point this out.  I don't think it would
>affect web, mail, etc.
>
>Third, the annual payment discount we are currently getting would
>disappear with the new VPS.
>
>However, I am very intrigued by one comment to that post.  Caker
>hints that there will be a lower-spec plan offered at less than
>$20/month.  Given that such a VPS would probably offer essentially
>the same resources we're using now (except less CPU), I think it's
>worth holding out to see what they come up with.
>
>Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
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