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See? You keep getting downvoted. Exercise some self-control and dignity and focus on the topic at hand. I'm violating my own habits here to try to show you what

See? You keep getting downvoted. Exercise some self-control and dignity and focus on the topic at hand. I'm violating my own habits here to try to show you what you're doing. And getting back to the subject, are you aware of any companies that have been upgrading their servers beyond just RAM (such as linode)?

jbooth 16y ago
Yeah, Amazon. Cutting prices across the board at the low-medium end and adding new options at the high end. As I said in my original comment.
- alnayyir 16y ago
  > Sorry if you couldn't get that in between all of my awful, antisocial behavior. The griping and passive-aggressive comments are what's causing the down votes. Cut it out As for the price cuts, at the small-medium size ranges, the cuts haven't been extensive, and certainly not to the same scale as what Moore's law would indicate. The new options at the high-end aren't an upgrade if they cost more (which is in fact the case). At present the best deal I've been able to find in terms of $/performance has been Linode, but they aren't the most reliable in the world so far.
  - jbooth 16y ago
    Moore's law is a law of economics, not nature. Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers.
    - alnayyir 16y ago
      It's not even really a law of economics or nature. Or a law. It's a state of a tendency if the rate of expansion of transistor density. At present, it's more economical (if you don't need programmatic elastic expansion of your cluster) to rent/lease dedicated hardware or set up your own. This is because hardware has been getting faster than they have been upgrading. >Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers. The point of this discussion is that this hasn't happened yet with any known majors beyond RAM upgrades and small amounts of price-twiddling.

jbooth 16y ago

Yeah, Amazon. Cutting prices across the board at the low-medium end and adding new options at the high end. As I said in my original comment.

alnayyir 16y ago
> Sorry if you couldn't get that in between all of my awful, antisocial behavior. The griping and passive-aggressive comments are what's causing the down votes. Cut it out As for the price cuts, at the small-medium size ranges, the cuts haven't been extensive, and certainly not to the same scale as what Moore's law would indicate. The new options at the high-end aren't an upgrade if they cost more (which is in fact the case). At present the best deal I've been able to find in terms of $/performance has been Linode, but they aren't the most reliable in the world so far.
- jbooth 16y ago
  Moore's law is a law of economics, not nature. Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers.
  - alnayyir 16y ago
    It's not even really a law of economics or nature. Or a law. It's a state of a tendency if the rate of expansion of transistor density. At present, it's more economical (if you don't need programmatic elastic expansion of your cluster) to rent/lease dedicated hardware or set up your own. This is because hardware has been getting faster than they have been upgrading. >Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers. The point of this discussion is that this hasn't happened yet with any known majors beyond RAM upgrades and small amounts of price-twiddling.