Storage Space Doubled!

July 25, 2013 11:43 am

We’re exceptionally pleased to announce we’re doubling the storage space on all of our plans, available immediately for new and existing customers.  Linode has implemented major upgrades to other resources recently: 8 cores and new processors, a 2x RAM increase, and the new redundant and fast network. This upgrade is yet another action in that spirit — giving you, our customers, ever more value with no price increase. That’s right. We’re doubling your disk space at no additional cost!

The new Linode lineup:

  • Linode 1GB disk space increased from 24GB to 48GB
  • Linode 2GB from 48GB to 96GB
  • Linode 4GB from 96GB to 192GB
  • Linode 8GB from 192GB to 384GB
  • Linode 16GB from 384GB to 768GB
  • Linode 32GB from 768GB to 1.5TB
  • Linode 40GB from 960GB to 1.875TB

How to upgrade

upgrade-availTo get the upgrade for your existing Linode, simply log into the Linode Manager and view your Linode’s Dashboard, where you’ll have a new “Upgrade Available” box on the right-hand side. Depending on the free capacity of your Linode’s host, the upgrade process may involve migrating your Linode to another host. This will be indicated on the upgrade page.

After you receive the resource upgrade, you can utilize the new space by resizing your existing disk images or by creating new images and attaching them to your configuration profile.

We really appreciate your business and are pleased we’re able to continually improve our services. Thank you, and enjoy!

Filed under: upgrades, linode by caker

83 Responses

  1. Davie Perini July 26th, 2013 at 3:30 am

    Excellent !!!!

  2. Khoo Chen Shiang July 26th, 2013 at 4:02 am

    Hi Linode

    Thanks! Appreciated..

    Just a tiny suggestion, do you plan to offer flexible storage soon, similar to AWS S3?

    As we may needs small instance for our blog/web site, but a bigger storage to store the multimedia file

    Cheers
    James

  3. Stephen Thompson July 26th, 2013 at 5:04 am

    Thanks for a fantastic service.

  4. jon July 26th, 2013 at 7:05 am

    Am i thinking of a different provider or did linode start accepting btc recently? I dont see any mention of it so i geuss it was another provider. Am i missing something? Thx

  5. J Greer July 26th, 2013 at 9:29 am

    You should change your name to Amazing Linode.

    Thanks for another free upgrade.

  6. Teddysun July 26th, 2013 at 10:46 am

    Very cool!

  7. Andy G July 26th, 2013 at 1:49 pm

    Totally fantastic, thanks Linode :)

  8. alect July 26th, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    Unbelievable!!!thanks linode!

  9. Scott July 26th, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    I have horrible uptime with Linode…. :)

  10. Cadina July 27th, 2013 at 1:22 am

    Thank you!

  11. Mark July 27th, 2013 at 3:06 am

    Wow! Looks like I’ll be able to move back to Linode again now…hooray :-)

  12. Tobias G. W. July 27th, 2013 at 5:43 am

    Great news! Why don’t you notify us by email when you upgrade our accounts like this?

  13. Mudkip July 27th, 2013 at 10:47 am

    Actually after all these upgrades, I feel my Linode is not as healthy as before. The main problem is the CPU contention/steal/priority thing. “top” command often show high %st and CPU speed becomes much slower than the old L5520 host. Even when the host load is “idle”.

    I searched Linode forums and Google, that’s a problem many people suffered from recently. (There are many this kind of posts in Linode forums: https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?t=9983&p=58133#p57643 )

    It almost killed my websites twice and Linode support kindly migrated my Linode to another host. But after a few weeks the performance is worse again, though not the worst yet.

    I hope this is just a bug in the CPU allocation program and could be fixed soon. (as Linode support told me.) But maybe it’s really a big mistake to increase to 8 cores when the resource is not sufficient.

    This issue should be taken seriously. Former users love Linode don’t because Linode is cheap in memory/disk/bandwidth, but because Linode once had good stable performance.

  14. Josh July 27th, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    @Mukdip — I had exactly the same problems as you describe. Much higher steal % and load when I migrated from former 1GB plan to 2GB and new host with new CPU. After trying all kinds of things on my end, the only thing that fixed it was upgrading to the 3TB plan.

  15. Paul Thomson July 28th, 2013 at 3:15 am

    Great work linode, a satisfied customer though I hate reading about upgrades causing performance issues as commented by other users.

    Paul :-)

  16. 水景一页 July 28th, 2013 at 7:02 am

    It’s absolutely another NextGen! Thank you very much!

  17. Keith H July 28th, 2013 at 5:21 pm

    Awesome!
    Will be coming back to Linode after reading this!
    Just one thing to point out.
    While I’m sure that their are customers who have had poor host CPU performance, it’s obviously not an issue that’s hitting everybody. Most of the comments I’ve seen lately on the recent Linode blog posts have been happyness all round.
    Well, count me in Linode, I’m coming back!
    Power to virtualization!
    Sincerely,
    Keith.
    :-)

  18. Keith H July 28th, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    Oh, and I’m sure that Linode is doing all they can to help you folks who have been having these issues. Chears to your tech support staff,too!

  19. Narendra July 28th, 2013 at 8:18 pm

    Very impressive. Linode continues to lead the way. I always recommend Linode to all my friends in India over AWS and other services.

    I do hope you guys address the issue raised by mudkip and others.

  20. atc July 29th, 2013 at 7:38 am

    Truly awesome. Thanks guys. This and the quality of service & products is why you’re my number one choice.

  21. Ryan S July 29th, 2013 at 3:15 pm

    Thanks for the freebie!

  22. Express Rates July 30th, 2013 at 10:15 pm

    @Mudkip,

    I too have same feeling … my old 512MB, 20GB was rock solid, and the performance was amazing.

    After new cpu/memory upgrade , my db reports showing noticable lag …

    :(

  23. David Yin's Blog August 1st, 2013 at 2:41 pm

    Linode Double the Storage space for Free…

    Yes, it is true. Even looks like too good to be true. Linode announced Storage Space Doubled! The new Linode……

  24. Robert August 2nd, 2013 at 9:36 am

    Dang. I was actually considering a disk space upgrade. Thanks!

  25. Spike August 2nd, 2013 at 7:03 pm

    I’ve had linode for under a year and in that time they’ve doubled RAM, storage space, and given me 100x the bandwidth. Unprecedented.

  26. slboat August 4th, 2013 at 6:27 am

    i just wonder i have not enought space to use!this is crazy great!! thx!

  27. Ryan S August 5th, 2013 at 12:57 am

    IMO, I’d say give them time. I’ve had a node or nodes for a number of years now, and Linode has consistently put quality over quantity, so to speak. I don’t think I can remember a single time I’ve had a problem where Linode was at fault, and they were not both gracious with credits and quick to solve the problem.

    Everyone knows the risks associated with change in a production environment. That’s what redundancy and backup plans are for. Of course, I don’t have any production level services on an effected linode right now, but I can certainly sympathize. With Linode it’s always been a matter of trust and understanding, and the notion that these particular geeks are interested in advancement only through integrity and respect, unlike most. We’ll see.

  28. Francewhoa September 5th, 2013 at 8:06 pm

    Whoop whoop, thanks :)

  29. kim September 12th, 2013 at 1:00 pm

    So this was the last bit in the puzzle making me able to move my 30gb from dreamhost to linode. And what a journey it have been. Should have done this LOOOOONG time ago ! :-)

  30. Adrian September 17th, 2013 at 2:36 am

    Thanks linode. I was skeptical at begining as we passed trough some VPS providers that are expensive yet the services are well bellow. Keep up the good work and customers happy as you managed to do so well up till now.

  31. Andy H July 28th, 2015 at 5:52 am

    I know this is an old post, but it seems that in 2 years things have gone backwards (at least for new customers anyway.)

    The current Linode lineup is now:

    Linode 1GB – 24GB
    Linode 2GB – 48GB
    Linode 4GB – 96GB
    Linode 8GB – 192GB
    Linode 16GB – 384GB

    etc. I.e. the additional 50% disk space has been removed back to what it was before. Looks like it wasn’t sustainable.

    I also can’t see anyway to purchase additional storage space without upgrading the entire node – I don’t want any more CPU or RAM, but I do need some more disk space (192GB on the Linode 4GB as announced in this post would have suited me fine.)

  32. Andy H July 28th, 2015 at 6:17 am

    Just been reading more on your blog Linode, and didn’t realise the Linode “Cloud” and SSDs didn’t exist when this was written – so although the storage space has halved, it’s now running on SSDs – which is understandable why the additional space wasn’t sustainable.

  33. caker July 28th, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    Andy: Since this post, RAM has also doubled. That Linode 1GB that came with 48GB used to cost $20. Now the $20 plan comes with 2GB of RAM. So, storage hasn’t halved, prices have :)

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