He's funding his retirement with Bitcoin mining.

LOL, some things never change.

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maybe linode could come up with some way to have "cheap, slow" storage like blaze storage's pods or something
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/pe ... e-secrets/

Maybe linode can have distro's with btrfs and "compression turned on" so that people can save on disk space...or educate them about the same
-roger-

pvgrub + distro kernel + zfsonlinux + zfs dedupe and compression

You'd need a pretty big linode to use zfs, though. It's RAM hungry, and 512MB isn't going to cut it. You can make do with 2GB, but 4+ is preferred. Mitigating factor is the limited amount of space on your linode; you're not talking about a multi-terabyte storage pool like a home server might have. So maybe 2GB of RAM would be enough for ZFS on a linode.

Really? At what tier of linode do the drives get this awesome? My two (512s) are:

/dev/xvda:
Timing cached reads: 11582 MB in 1.99 seconds = 5815.48 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 248 MB in 3.01 seconds = 82.43 MB/sec
sudowned@iiyanara:~$

and

/dev/xvda:
Timing cached reads: 12180 MB in 1.99 seconds = 6116.65 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 414 MB in 3.01 seconds = 137.37 MB/sec
sudowned@phyre:~$

respectively. Not only is that kinda slow, it's... really really divergent results between the nodes. My (otherwise horrible) HostGator VPS was clocking in at over 350mb/s.

All linodes are on 15K RPM SAS disks. What you're forgetting is that your linode is not the only one running on the box, and that 15K RPM drives don't necessarily have terribly higher sequential throughput (than 7200RPM) since they're spinning faster but with lower density. They're about higher IOPS, not higher throughput.

I can't comment on benchmarks on HostGator. I have no idea what they use for storage.

~ $ cat /proc/version

mine has pie... I'm happy with it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_executable

This specific pie is related to the hand-compiled kernel I'm running

All joking aside, if one of these things happens, and if my (vote) preferences are really representative, it will mean all linode users get more storage. But then again, this storage increase already happened at least once since this topic was started, hasn't it?

http://blog.linode.com/2012/12/14/storage-increased-by-20/

Memory. I'm pushed for memory but pretty good on everything else.

Yes I'm answering really late.

peleus: will you please stop necro-posting on really old posts? Thanks.

-Chris