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caker · Last edited by caker on Tue Apr 24, 2007 7:31 am; edited 2 times in total

The Big Announcement: Double the Resources!

100% Resource Increase!

As hinted at in various threads, the big announcement is here: We've doubled the resources on all our Linode plans! That's double the RAM, double the disk space, double the transfer, and double the value! Smile

Standard plans now include:

Linode 128 becomes Linode 256 - 8GiB Disk
Linode 192 becomes Linode 384 - 12GiB Disk
Linode 256 becomes Linode 512 - 16GiB Disk
Linode 384 becomes Linode 768 - 24GiB Disk
Linode 512 becomes Linode 1024 - 32GiB Disk

Check the products page for more information.

Rollout and Availability

Fremont: Those on hosts 56 and higher have already received the upgrades. For the remaining Fremont hosts, the upgrade/migration schedule with more details will be posted soon.

Dallas: We're still acquiring more datacenter space to perform these upgrades. The other option is to migrate your Linode to another datacenter (IP change) and receive the upgrades immediately. If you want to do that, please open a Support Ticket.

EDIT: Dallas upgrades now available! Please see this thread.

Atlanta: Upgrades completed.

Fremont hosts include: hosts 9-26, 56-76
Dallas hosts include: hosts 1-8, 27-55
Atlanta hosts include: hosts 77 and up

Annual Payments

Customers who pay annually also receive an additional 50% disk space on top of the new standard. Please fill out a support ticket if you'd like to switch to annual payments.

Instructions

To take advantage of the extra space, you have a choice of:

Resizing your existing filesystem to occupy the new space
- Shutdown your Linode
- Members -> Disk Images -> Click on your root filesystem -> Enter in new size, and Save Changes
- Boot your Linode
Creating new empty disk images
- Members -> Disk Images, scroll down to "Create an Empty Disk Image"
- Enter a label (for example: "disk2")
- Enter in the size (use the "Storage Summary" box in the upper-right corner)
- Choose "ext3" for filesystem type, and Create Disk
- Members -> Configurations -> Click on your config
- Add your new "disk2" to an open /dev/ubd? slot. Save
- Reboot your Linode
- Log into your Linode, and as root: "mount /dev/ubd[insert device letter here] /path/to/mountpoint" where path/to/mountpoint is an existing directory
Deploying more Linux Installations
- Why, just use the Distro Wizard! Experiment with a new distro or something

Thank you for your business! Enjoy!

-Chris

tierra · Senior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 157

Let me be the first to say thanks, and long live Linode! Smile

astrashe2 · Senior Newbie Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

This is great news -- really fantastic. You guys are the best.

I'm at the Dallas datacenter -- what's the timeframe for equipment upgrades there?

I'm not sure if I should ask to be moved, or wait it out...

inkblot · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: it's funny

you know, it's kind of funny.... i just spent the evening hanging out with another linode customer (a former roommate and good friend of mine) who asked me if dashboard.cfm was the "big announcement" that's been rumored about. i told him it wasn't, and boy am i glad it was so much bigger than that.

thanks, linode. and thank you, man of cake.

bkirkbri · Senior Newbie Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 13

You guys are fantastic, I can't believe this... and it's on top of a storage and a RAM increase not that long ago!

caker · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: Re: that's fantastic

adinardi · Newbie Joined: 10 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

Awesome! Definitely worth the suspense. Smile

Oh and host12 should definitely be first in Fremont. Wink

--Angelo

c1i77 · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:26 am Post subject:

Hmmm nice,

Since Sep'04:
Linode 64 -> Linode 80 -> Linode 100 -> Linode 128 -> Linode 256

Linode.com -- simply excellent!

Cliff

lin · Senior Newbie Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 10

Yeah, I just logged in to mess with my IP address setup, and it was like: Disk usage: 50%.

Laughing

YAH. Thanks, guys.

jp · Senior Member Joined: 07 Jan 2004 Posts: 70

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

This upgrade came right when I needed. Thanks a lot!

dmuench · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:11 am Post subject:

Very nice, thanks caker. I'd love to migrate from Dallas to Atlanta myself but can't with all those filtered ports in Atlanta. Any idea if that'll be fixed, or are you stuck with it?

sweh · Senior Member Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 426

astrashe2 · Senior Newbie Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

I migrated from Dallas to Atlanta, and it went without a hitch.

The whole process was automated, and I could control when my vps went down.

I have my network configured manually, so I had to login on the console and edit my configs manually. But that's easy.

I was squeamish about it, but I can't imagine it being easier, or going more smoothly.

pclissold · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:25 pm Post subject:

Awesome. Thanks.
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/ Peter

mthaddon · Junior Member Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 21

I'm on host41.linode.com and it looks like mine has increased by 50%, but the RAM hasn't come into effect yet. I'm assuming this rollout will take place over time.

Fantastic stuff, linode!

Cheers, Tom