Linode Invests $45M In Slower Hosting

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I've been a Linode customer since they launched their User-Mode-Linux offering in 2003. With decreasing component prices and a little help from Moore's Law, they have repeatedly increased the resources available on their VPS instances. Most upgrades take the form of "Double the RAM" or "Double the disk space" and have allowed the company to stay competitive over the years.

However, their latest "upgrade" reduces the CPU core count from 8 to 2 on the most popular plan, drastically reducing the performance of most webserver workloads. Some users have posted degraded benchmark numbers on the Linode blog that announced the upgrade. They have also removed the discounts on yearly plans, thereby increasing the cost of the hosting plans.

Other aspects of the upgrade are more welcome:
  • Doubled RAM
  • Same Cost (Unless paying yearly [Grandfathering available if you forgo upgrades])
  • Same Storage Space (But now using SSD)
  • Same Transfer (Except the lowest plan [Which gets a 50% bump])
  • Increased Outgoing Bandwidth (Unless using a Node Balancer or the lowest plan [Which stay the same speeds])
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Re: Playing the devil's advocate (Score: 1)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-28 10:38 (#17F)

I'm not sure there's any difference between getting a time share of 2 cores or a time share of 8 cores (or a time share of 8000 cores for that matter). It all depends on how many VMs are sharing a pool of how many total cores. I assume the number of VMs greatly exceeds the number of cores available in the host. It's not as if you're getting any dedicated cores in any case.
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