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Unless they are using the really big instances though, I find that EC2 nodes are generally lower in power compared to what most people are using for their serve
by tibbon 16y ago
Unless they are using the really big instances though, I find that EC2 nodes are generally lower in power compared to what most people are using for their servers.
I remember not too long ago before they moved to EC2 everything fit in just a few racks. Of course, their traffic has expanded significantly recently.
- ergo98 16y agoEC2 nodes are terribly underpowered, particularly in the I/O realm (the biggest weakness of virtually every site) where a standard desktop absolutely annihilates the I/O performance of an S3 connection (where you have to perform software RAID to get anywhere near the performance of a single magnetic low-end SATA drive, which is absolutely terrible). A lot of the "web scale" noise has come from dealing with these gerbil sized instances.