Linode said in the next few weeks, and this was a few weeks ago.

The new 1GB Linode that I provisioned yesterday in London is of the new hardware type.

How can you tell what hardware type a Linode is on?

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Yes, I'm on one at Newark.

Migrated five Linodes and none are are the new hardware, oh well. I suppose I'll wait until it is my turn.

I've opened a ticket yesterday and asked about new hardware and they told me that they will have new machines within a week or two, so you should check it out then.

Btw, I'm in London DC.

# grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo 
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz

Shweet!

EDIT:

Also:

# grep bogo /proc/cpuinfo | tail -1
bogomips        : 5200.17

sednet: What DC was that in?

I also asked in a ticket this week and they told me I could request migration to new hardware in a couple weeks.

It's odd that they didn't align the migrations. I had to migrate to get the extra RAM, but then I'll have to migrate again in a few weeks to get the CPU. Should have aligned the two upgrades.

Ive got the hew power!

Maybe it's part of optimizing rack usage or something. Rather than installing enough of the new hardware for the entire user base at once, they have just enough to free up enough of the older hardware slots to efficiently reuse the rack and colo space. In the mean time, other Linodes are consolidated on some of the older hardware as sort of a staging area until the remaining swaps can be done incrementally. Might help minimize wasted resources (in terms of spare hardware/slots) during the conversion.

Since presumably they didn't bother doubling the memory in the older hosts, it may also mean that for the time being if you landed on older hardware, you actually have fewer sibling guests than usual, so that might on balance improve performance.

-- David

The node I migrated moved from L5520 to L5630. An upgrade, but not the one I was hoping for since all I did was move from hardware that is 4 years old to some that is 3 years old.

EDIT 1: Never mind, ask and ye shall receive. Migrating again right now.

EDIT 2: That a fast server. Page load times are seriously down to 50% of what they were on the old hardware.

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I've asked the same thing two days ago and have been told to wait undisclosed amount of time until server becomes available. Still waiting. This is in Newark. Where is your server?

Maybe they like me more than you.

Seriously though, Dallas. I opened a ticket on announcement day volunteering to go first. When I did the memory upgrade I updated the ticket asking for an ETA because I was surprised that they weren't migrating people to the new hardware. Support activated it right then.

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