im not really asking for much here just raise the cache sizes in the cpus a little more and at least 124mb - 200mb swap since my old provider has unmetered bandwith 2 cpus 512mb plan with a 1gb swap all for just 1 dollar more the only thing about it was the speed was a little lower then the one provided here

Hi Xavier,

We're going to look into it =]

awesome =]

Better CPU's are always going to improve everything.

well you can alway make swaps but its better for those people who dont know how to make them if it comes premade in the plan. what i really want is a better cpu

me too, it seems odd to me that linode lets you "use your neighbors cpu" (up to 8 cores) but with DO you're stuck with always exactly 1...

We will be making some CPU updates on the smaller plans in the next 2-3 weeks =]

Any existing customers will be able to upgrade with just a shutdown on the command line and a "Boot" from the control panel.

Linode just recently went rambo on the CPU core giving every plan the ability to burst to 8 cores. Not saying that it's a good idea, but being able to burst to 2X the current number of cores seems reasonable.

Hi,

Can I confirm that Digital Ocean will be making CPU speed upgrades in the next week or so? I'm really looking forward to it!

Please, when making an cpu updates , write a blog post or email existing users.

Can I just go ahead and add all 10 votes here? This is huge for me right now.

Any update on this? Was this done?

Also looking for more info on this.

Moisey Uretsky, will you be notifying customers of when they should reboot their servers to get better CPU speed?

Thanks for indicating that, i m having a very similar situation

We're looking into this request and seeing what we can do about it, no clear ETA on it yet, if we go down this route we will be providing updates regarding it and we are also investigating a new engineering tab that will keep all of our release information easily browse-able as well as current work so that customers are better informed of active and planned development.

Thanks

If we scaled up the resources on the existing plans and hypervisors it could lead to worse overall performance for customers.

By the same token to accomodate new plans we would need to provision new hardware, which would mean that our inventory process management is now fulfilling requests for different types of servers based on the usage of different types of plans which makes it much harder to scale operations because instead of keeping track of just "usage" we have to now track usage of multiple product lines.

The other difference is that cores do not translate to "cpu speed", they do translate to the ability to parallel process better but smaller plans do come with less resources so having more cores wouldn't necessary provide a larger boost for a particular application.

So it's a bit more complex than it first seems.

Thanks

Thanks for the response. Hopefully we can get more information soon. Would love to use your service but the CPU just isn't cutting it atm.

If you're having an issue please comment here so we can get more feedback to understand customer usage =]

What stack/app are you running, where is the limitation/bottleneck that you are hitting, etc.

Thanks

Technically, for the price of linode with 1GB of ram, DO gets you 2 cores at full utilization, with 2GB of ram

DO has more ram, less CPU

Depending on your tasks, particular with caching, you can do tradeoffs

Running a website?

APC, static caching, and varnish can eat a lot of ram, but it reduces CPU usage