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I like their straight forward pricing. $0.10 USD per GB per month. No IOPS limits. That said, how do you prevent a rogue droplet from going crazy and hogging

by skrowl 10y ago

I like their straight forward pricing. $0.10 USD per GB per month. No IOPS limits. That said, how do you prevent a rogue droplet from going crazy and hogging up all of the SSD I/O?

askmike 10y ago
They might limit IO speed (based on usage of previous 24h for example). Like how most cheaper AWS EC2 instances get their CPUs throttled after you're running CPU heavy stuff.
zbjornson 10y ago
Unless I missed it, I saw "no need for complicated formulas to determine the overall cost for transactions or IOPs limit," which I do not read as "no IOPS limit." I was looking but could not find any word on performance.
- brianwawok 10y ago
  I read it as they either silently limit you, or have a free for all and let the traffic duke it out for iops.
mdasen 10y ago
Google doesn't charge for IOPS either, but they do explain how things are limited. For example, speed in MB/s is limited by the instance size so that you don't use the entire network link for your connection to the disk. IOPS are limited by the size of the disk. If you're sharing the disk with other people, you're going to be limited in your IOPS. For example, if you get 10GB of SSD storage, you'll get 300 random IOPS, but another user with 50GB of storage will get 1,500 IOPS because they're renting a larger portion of the disk. If DigitalOcean isn't doing something limiting, they'll have to in order to prevent the situation that you're describing. You don't have to charge for it in order to prevent bad neighbors. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance
marcstreeter 10y ago
There are limits - they are marketing their simplicity by avoiding complicated pricing schemes. This is typical DO, and I see that as a good thing especially if you're just dipping your feet into the concept. The past year or two that we've had block storage at Codero we've been marketing the ability to set your own IOPS with even our smallest blocks (1000/2000/3000 iops). That said I'd be interested to know exactly what performance they offer because they are definitely cheaper.

by skrowl 10y ago

I like their straight forward pricing. $0.10 USD per GB per month. No IOPS limits. That said, how do you prevent a rogue droplet from going crazy and hogging up all of the SSD I/O?

askmike 10y ago

They might limit IO speed (based on usage of previous 24h for example). Like how most cheaper AWS EC2 instances get their CPUs throttled after you're running CPU heavy stuff.

zbjornson 10y ago

Unless I missed it, I saw "no need for complicated formulas to determine the overall cost for transactions or IOPs limit," which I do not read as "no IOPS limit." I was looking but could not find any word on performance.

brianwawok 10y ago
I read it as they either silently limit you, or have a free for all and let the traffic duke it out for iops.

mdasen 10y ago

Google doesn't charge for IOPS either, but they do explain how things are limited. For example, speed in MB/s is limited by the instance size so that you don't use the entire network link for your connection to the disk. IOPS are limited by the size of the disk. If you're sharing the disk with other people, you're going to be limited in your IOPS. For example, if you get 10GB of SSD storage, you'll get 300 random IOPS, but another user with 50GB of storage will get 1,500 IOPS because they're renting a larger portion of the disk. If DigitalOcean isn't doing something limiting, they'll have to in order to prevent the situation that you're describing. You don't have to charge for it in order to prevent bad neighbors. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance

marcstreeter 10y ago

There are limits - they are marketing their simplicity by avoiding complicated pricing schemes. This is typical DO, and I see that as a good thing especially if you're just dipping your feet into the concept. The past year or two that we've had block storage at Codero we've been marketing the ability to set your own IOPS with even our smallest blocks (1000/2000/3000 iops). That said I'd be interested to know exactly what performance they offer because they are definitely cheaper.