Free Upgrade Query

I suggest adding a new Linode and performing your own tests to see how your workloads are affected. I would say the upgrade is worth it for the vast majority of users.

They changed the priority of CPU and instead gave you less cores on the smaller plans. It's also faster CPUs. I did some benchmarking, and according to some of my benchmarks, the new CPU with 2 cores can compete with 8 cores of the old.

However, the old system was also running other things, and it was not really something I spent a lot of time on, so results may vary.

If you don't use more than 100-200 % CPU on the old plan, you should be good to go - you'll only feel an improvement since the new cores are faster.

If you frequently use more, it may or may not have an impact on your performance depending on your usage.

On the same topic, is there any other hardware change?

I seem to remember my Linode when I set it up was just using RAID storage.

Now, Linode emphasise the fact they're SSDs.

Does that mean my existing Linode is on spinning disk and by going for the upgrade, I'm migrated to a these newer nodes that have faster CPUs and SSDs? If so, disk access would be a fair bit quicker too, no?

@tfboy:

On the same topic, is there any other hardware change?

I seem to remember my Linode when I set it up was just using RAID storage.

Now, Linode emphasise the fact they're SSDs.

Does that mean my existing Linode is on spinning disk and by going for the upgrade, I'm migrated to a these newer nodes that have faster CPUs and SSDs? If so, disk access would be a fair bit quicker too, no?
It's SSD's in RAID now. So yes, a lot quicker.

So are the old plans with the 8 vCPU's on older hard drives or SSD?

I have a site with heavy mysql stuff. I've heard RAM and SSD will help more than the CPU cores.

Thoughts?

@miprogrammer:

I have a site with heavy mysql stuff. I've heard RAM and SSD will help more than the CPU cores.
You heard right, but of course the only way to be sure is to try it on a new Linode.