I see a lot of new offers featuring L5xxx Xeon servers, with L5520 appearing to the most common, which some of them featuring high amount of RAM, like 48Gb upwards. Before new servers were often happy to mention their E3-12xx servers and the bigger providers mention E5-26xx servers.
Where are the L5XXX servers coming from? Have numbers of ex Linode servers come onto the market or what?
Los Angeles also seems to have become a source of LEBs offering high resources. Is that because there are lots of web industry majors there decommissioning stock?