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		jaequery on April 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much mo... cpu counts dont mean much in terms of performance. but from a strict performance standpoint, their E5 2680's are amongst the tops in the industry (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html). i'm pretty sure DO's is somewhere around 1/10th the performance of Linode's in terms of CPU power. you are getting a really good deal here w/ Linode, I dont think any cloud providers are at this level right now.

ac29 on April 17, 2014 [–]

Amazon also uses E5-2680 v2 on their C3 instance types, and E5-2670 v2 on R3 types.

jaequery on April 17, 2014 | [–]

yes, but not at $20/month ... on ec2 you'd pay atleast $100/month for same thing.

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