If you have upgraded your Linode, what did you run out of?

The thing that you are most likely to run out of is RAM.

Hence the reason packages are named for the amount of ram you get…

Thanks for the replies :)

I am using lighttpd and cgi (with C code) where possible instead of Apache and php (except for PunBB, which I hope will also be lighter than phpBB).

So I'm hoping not to run out of RAM that soon. It'll be fun to see how far I can stretch the Linode 360.

I definitely wouldn't do it in production, but I've run Zimbra (postfix, jetty[java], apache, mysql and more) on a Linode 360 and it ran reasonably with no tuning. I did disable the anti-virus/anti-spam components–I'm not crazy ;)

You didn't mention your traffic or where you've previously run this system, but since you're optimizing your platform to a high degree, I think you'll do well. I personally favor the Linode 1080 size; the 360s are for testing or things that can run more slowly.

If you don't want to jump to the next Linode size, you could always buy a bit more RAM under the Extras section of the Linode Manager (but upgrading is so much better--and cheaper overall).

Please let us know how it goes!

phvt:

I haven't ran this system before, it's a new site for a distributed computing effort. So I'm not really sure how big traffic will be, but probably not high at all at least for a few months.

I'll let you know how it goes :)