Linode Linode 17th Birthday Product Announcement News

eva2000 · Jun 18, 2020

Linode.com turned 17yrs and they have new product update news and a peak into their future development roadmap Linode at 17: A bunch of updates | Linode Blog including bare metal dedicated servers, private VLANs, managed databases and more dedicated cpu instance VPS plans (I suspect they'd be AMD EPYC based)

Linode turns 17 today! My sincere thanks to the entire Linode team, who work hard to support each other, and you – our customers. As we’ve done in past years, we want to celebrate with a few updates…

This year’s updates are based on input from you, our customers and community members, and include DNS rendering time improvements, larger Dedicated CPU instances, High Memory plans go dedicated, and managed Kubernetes availability in all regions*.
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DNS Manager – Rendering Time Improvements

When you add or change DNS zones or records, your changes will now be reflected at our authoritative nameservers in under 60 seconds. This is down from the previous “every quarter hour” approach that we had for so long. This should make life much easier for those needing faster changes reflected out into the world, like when doing Terraform deployments and other scenarios.

Linode’s DNS Manager service is included free, and is served by over 100 any-casted POPs all around the world.
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New Larger Dedicated CPU Instances

Last year we doubled the storage on Dedicated CPU instances, and we’re continuing to expand this instance class with three new monster plans: Dedicated 128GB, Dedicated 256GB, and Dedicated 512GB. Check out the plan lineup for more information.

Dedicated instances are optimized for workloads where consistent performance is required or where full-duty work (100% CPU all day, every day) is required. This includes build boxes, CI/CD, video encoding, machine learning, game servers, databases, data mining, and busy application servers. Get started with a Dedicated CPU.
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High Memory plans upgraded to Dedicated Cores

Our High Memory Plans, which previously ran on shared CPUs, will now run on 100% dedicated CPU cores. This means better performance and resource utilization for supporting your high-performance databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data processing. This upgrade remains at the same pricing.

If you’re an existing user of a high memory plan, you’ll be given the option to upgrade to dedicated cores. Get started with a High Memory instances
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Linode Kubernetes Engine Reaches Global Availability

Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE) was recently released as an easy and simple way to build your infrastructure using managed Kubernetes. Over the past few weeks, we have expanded the footprint of LKE to serve each of our global markets*.

If you’re exploring Kubernetes as part of your deployments, LKE fits into your existing Linode infrastructure and can be deployed via Cloud Manager, API, or CLI. It also comes with a complimentary Kubernetes control plane – including API, scheduler, etcd, and resource controllers. Create a cluster now.

* Please note LKE is not currently available in our Atlanta data center pending a planned upgrade of that facility.
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What’s Coming Next

Additional Object Storage deployments (next up is Singapore) and features (fine-grained ACLs, Let’s Encrypt / bring your own SSL cert support)

More Cloud Manager UI/UX refinements (good stuff)

NodeBalancer improvements (PROXY protocol, Let’s Encrypt certs)

Atlanta Upgrades

Private VLANs beta

Bare Metal Linodes beta

Managed Databases (MySQL to start with) beta

Networking and fleet stability and performance improvements have been the top priority for us since January. About 25% of our fleet has received these updates, with the remaining rollouts happening soon.

We appreciate you and your business every day and look forward to serving you as we head into year 18. Thank you.
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Colin · Jun 25, 2020

Almost in synch with this I've been getting obscene steal. My 8vCpu has been fine for years chugging away.

After a couple of live migrations and today enduring 70+% steal, I'm moving to a dedicated plan.

The bare metal option will be nice. I often thought about scaleway or vultr, just no uk presence. although france/amsterdam isn't far for light to travel.

eva2000 · Jun 25, 2020

that is alot of cpu steal ! make sure you're reading the numbers correctly.

You can use cminfo sar-cpu command to get a breakdown of 123.09beta01 server's cpu stats for past 7 days

Code (Text):

cminfo sar-cpu

example

Code (Text):

cminfo sar-cpu
------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Utilisation % Last 7 days (8 CPU Threads):
------------------------------------------------------------------
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.12   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.15  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  70.69
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.17   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.20  %iowait:  0.84  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.79
%CPU  max:  %user:  24.85  %nice:  0.04  %system:  3.46  %iowait:  6.31  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.70
%CPU  50%:  %user:  0.13   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.18  %iowait:  0.03  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.42
%CPU  75%:  %user:  0.15   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  1.28  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.67
%CPU  90%:  %user:  0.18   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.23  %iowait:  2.52  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.68
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.23   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.26  %iowait:  2.54  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.68
%CPU  99%:  %user:  0.59   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.28  %iowait:  3.79  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.69
------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Utilisation % Daily Last 7 days (8 CPU Threads):
------------------------------------------------------------------
Jun 25 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.18  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.24  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  95.56
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.21  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.27  %iowait:  0.79  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.74
%CPU  max:  %user:  0.77  %nice:  0.04  %system:  0.38  %iowait:  3.80  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.55
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.38  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.28  %iowait:  2.54  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.54
Jun 24 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.15   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  71.11
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.26   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.23  %iowait:  0.82  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.69
%CPU  max:  %user:  24.53  %nice:  0.04  %system:  3.27  %iowait:  5.03  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.63
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.35   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.24  %iowait:  2.54  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.61
Jun 23 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.12   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.16  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  70.69
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.23   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  0.80  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.77
%CPU  max:  %user:  24.85  %nice:  0.04  %system:  3.46  %iowait:  3.80  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.70
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.26   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.22  %iowait:  2.53  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.68
Jun 22 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.12  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.16  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  94.67
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.14  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.18  %iowait:  0.86  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.81
%CPU  max:  %user:  0.70  %nice:  0.04  %system:  0.29  %iowait:  5.04  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.69
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.19  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  2.54  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.68
Jun 21 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.12  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.16  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  91.98
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.14  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.20  %iowait:  0.87  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.79
%CPU  max:  %user:  0.71  %nice:  0.04  %system:  1.78  %iowait:  6.22  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.69
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.19  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  2.53  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.69
Jun 20 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.12  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.15  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  93.39
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.14  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.18  %iowait:  0.81  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.87
%CPU  max:  %user:  1.09  %nice:  0.04  %system:  0.29  %iowait:  6.31  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.70
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.20  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  2.53  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.68
Jun 19 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.12  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.15  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  94.66
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.14  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.18  %iowait:  0.89  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.79
%CPU  max:  %user:  1.27  %nice:  0.04  %system:  0.29  %iowait:  5.04  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.70
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.19  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  2.54  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.69
Jun 18 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  0.12  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.16  %iowait:  0.01  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  93.40
%CPU  avg:  %user:  0.14  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.18  %iowait:  0.84  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  98.84
%CPU  max:  %user:  1.28  %nice:  0.04  %system:  0.28  %iowait:  6.31  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.70
%CPU  95%:  %user:  0.15  %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.19  %iowait:  2.53  %steal:  0.00  %idle:  99.69

Colin · Jun 25, 2020

So many cool tools you have built into this... That's a nicer view. I was sending them screenshots from nixstats which they liked very much.

Code:

------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Utilisation % Last 7 days (8 CPU Threads):
------------------------------------------------------------------
%CPU  min:  %user:  1.94   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.63   %iowait:  0.02  %steal:  0.06   %idle:  14.97
%CPU  avg:  %user:  6.87   %nice:  0.02  %system:  2.19   %iowait:  0.12  %steal:  4.26   %idle:  86.54
%CPU  max:  %user:  29.67  %nice:  2.97  %system:  14.07  %iowait:  2.86  %steal:  69.73  %idle:  97.13
%CPU  50%:  %user:  7.15   %nice:  0.00  %system:  1.82   %iowait:  0.07  %steal:  1.23   %idle:  89.43
%CPU  75%:  %user:  8.55   %nice:  0.00  %system:  2.43   %iowait:  0.12  %steal:  3.60   %idle:  93.29
%CPU  90%:  %user:  10.00  %nice:  0.00  %system:  4.27   %iowait:  0.27  %steal:  11.31  %idle:  95.38
%CPU  95%:  %user:  11.21  %nice:  0.00  %system:  5.21   %iowait:  0.43  %steal:  19.60  %idle:  96.01
%CPU  99%:  %user:  16.06  %nice:  0.83  %system:  6.74   %iowait:  0.75  %steal:  37.42  %idle:  96.71

------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Utilisation % Daily Last 7 days (8 CPU Threads):
------------------------------------------------------------------
Jun 25 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  2.03   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.89  %iowait:  0.05  %steal:  1.28   %idle:  15.22
%CPU  avg:  %user:  5.65   %nice:  0.04  %system:  3.16  %iowait:  0.29  %steal:  14.26  %idle:  76.60
%CPU  max:  %user:  16.03  %nice:  2.09  %system:  7.12  %iowait:  1.56  %steal:  69.73  %idle:  95.04
%CPU  95%:  %user:  9.66   %nice:  0.00  %system:  6.00  %iowait:  0.77  %steal:  39.36  %idle:  94.49
Jun 24 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  2.33   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.71   %iowait:  0.02  %steal:  0.18   %idle:  14.97
%CPU  avg:  %user:  7.31   %nice:  0.02  %system:  3.15   %iowait:  0.25  %steal:  10.74  %idle:  78.53
%CPU  max:  %user:  22.95  %nice:  2.22  %system:  14.07  %iowait:  2.86  %steal:  64.84  %idle:  96.74
%CPU  95%:  %user:  11.00  %nice:  0.00  %system:  6.75   %iowait:  0.69  %steal:  35.72  %idle:  95.69
Jun 23 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  2.89   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.85  %iowait:  0.02  %steal:  0.23   %idle:  68.77
%CPU  avg:  %user:  6.77   %nice:  0.02  %system:  1.77  %iowait:  0.09  %steal:  1.88   %idle:  89.48
%CPU  max:  %user:  21.41  %nice:  2.14  %system:  5.31  %iowait:  0.58  %steal:  18.17  %idle:  95.85
%CPU  95%:  %user:  9.82   %nice:  0.00  %system:  2.63  %iowait:  0.21  %steal:  4.54   %idle:  94.91
Jun 22 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  2.20   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.65  %iowait:  0.03  %steal:  0.17   %idle:  64.95
%CPU  avg:  %user:  6.45   %nice:  0.02  %system:  1.72  %iowait:  0.09  %steal:  1.85   %idle:  89.87
%CPU  max:  %user:  22.90  %nice:  2.15  %system:  4.92  %iowait:  0.52  %steal:  18.92  %idle:  96.82
%CPU  95%:  %user:  10.08  %nice:  0.00  %system:  2.75  %iowait:  0.21  %steal:  5.42   %idle:  96.33
Jun 21 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  2.14   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.63  %iowait:  0.02  %steal:  0.11   %idle:  71.03
%CPU  avg:  %user:  6.32   %nice:  0.02  %system:  1.54  %iowait:  0.06  %steal:  1.00   %idle:  91.05
%CPU  max:  %user:  21.16  %nice:  2.17  %system:  3.90  %iowait:  0.36  %steal:  11.38  %idle:  97.07
%CPU  95%:  %user:  9.41   %nice:  0.00  %system:  2.22  %iowait:  0.11  %steal:  2.28   %idle:  96.30
Jun 20 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  1.94   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.65  %iowait:  0.02  %steal:  0.14   %idle:  57.67
%CPU  avg:  %user:  6.21   %nice:  0.02  %system:  1.50  %iowait:  0.06  %steal:  1.02   %idle:  91.18
%CPU  max:  %user:  29.67  %nice:  2.10  %system:  4.43  %iowait:  0.47  %steal:  10.91  %idle:  97.13
%CPU  95%:  %user:  9.44   %nice:  0.00  %system:  2.17  %iowait:  0.13  %steal:  2.46   %idle:  96.40
Jun 19 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  2.78   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.76  %iowait:  0.02  %steal:  0.09   %idle:  30.44
%CPU  avg:  %user:  7.72   %nice:  0.03  %system:  2.41  %iowait:  0.09  %steal:  3.39   %idle:  86.36
%CPU  max:  %user:  26.62  %nice:  2.97  %system:  8.39  %iowait:  0.93  %steal:  34.33  %idle:  96.24
%CPU  95%:  %user:  12.48  %nice:  0.00  %system:  5.02  %iowait:  0.21  %steal:  12.94  %idle:  95.42
Jun 18 2020 %CPU
%CPU  min:  %user:  2.07   %nice:  0.00  %system:  0.66  %iowait:  0.02  %steal:  0.06   %idle:  34.16
%CPU  avg:  %user:  7.94   %nice:  0.03  %system:  2.72  %iowait:  0.11  %steal:  4.70   %idle:  84.50
%CPU  max:  %user:  26.65  %nice:  2.94  %system:  7.00  %iowait:  0.89  %steal:  28.48  %idle:  96.99
%CPU  95%:  %user:  12.08  %nice:  0.00  %system:  4.49  %iowait:  0.21  %steal:  11.02  %idle:  96.22

eva2000 · Jun 25, 2020

Yeah I mainly build Centmin Mod for my personal usage so handy tools are a must

Looks like for Jun 25, 2020 your max cpu steal = 69.73% with 95% percentile at 39.36% cpu steal and similarly high for previous June 24, 2020 at max cpu steal = 64.84% and 95% percentile at 35.73% cpu steal. So yes when that happens, request Linode to move you to another less congested/crowded VPS host node or as you have planned move to dedicated cpu Linode plans so you are not sharing resources with other basic Linode plan users.

eva2000 · Jun 25, 2020

FYI cminfo command info Upgrade - Nginx - Insight Guide - cminfo command explained

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