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x86 offerings are so cheap now, is there still a market for this kind of ARM hosting? I would argue that you will achieve at least equivalent performance from a
by quillo 9y ago
x86 offerings are so cheap now, is there still a market for this kind of ARM hosting? I would argue that you will achieve at least equivalent performance from an entry level KVM or Xen VM.
Perhaps there is still a market for the security concious or workloads sensitive to noisy neighbours.
Somewhat of a tangent - although not small scale, I have found the packet.net 96 core ARM offering to be good value.
- bluejekyll 9y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but ARM is much less power hungry, and produces less heat. Both options that at scale means potential cost savings on resale. It might not be enough to offset the other costs, but it could be enough to offer a less costly service. At the end of the day though, half of what you get with AWS is a ton of library support in many languages for using AWS services.
- jjeaff 9y agoScaleways offers x86 options that are the same price with same number of cores.
- _up 9y agoI got an email saying that they recently doubled the arm cores.
- ferongr 9y ago>ARM is much less power hungry, and produces less heat This seems like a myth repeated without any proof to back it up.
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- fh973 9y agoHere you go: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10353/investigating-cavium-thunderx-48-arm-cores/19 http://www.anandtech.com/show/10353/investigating-cavium-thu... Performance and power are a complicated topic and Thunder-X2 might produce better numbers. 64-bit ARM for servers must be competitive with Xeons and POWER and can't compromise performance for power either.
- pasbesoin 9y agoYes, I have some interest in an inexpensive, relatively low demand hosting scenario that does not involve a VM / CPU sharing. Thank you for the packet.net mention. It is interesting, even if it is not quite what I am looking in this context.
- _up 9y agoThey are only cheap because Intel has competition. Offering ARM, get them probably cheaper access to Intel Hardware.