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Most hosting companies do. Cloud hosting (a small subset, as far as I know), generally don't. If you believe the sales pitch is to help you know that 2 ECU wil
by latch 8y ago
Most hosting companies do. Cloud hosting (a small subset, as far as I know), generally don't.
If you believe the sales pitch is to help you know that 2 ECU will be twice as fast as 1 ECU (without having to worry about, does this chip has 8MB of L2 cache or 12?).
If you're more cynical, you'll probably think they do it to help hide the fact that cloud computing tends to get trounced badly across all performance aspects (raw cpu, ram, disk io and network io) while being quite a bit more expensive.
- YetAnotherNick 8y ago> Cloud hosting (a small subset, as far as I know) Am I living in a bubble, or you are living under a rock?
- latch 8y agoI'd be surprised if AWS/Google/Azure accounted for more than low digit % of all "hosting". Last hard numbers I saw, Amazon was the single largest by # of servers, but OVH wasn't too far behind. There's thousands of these worldwide, most older than any cloud provider. Some of the more well known: OVH, Rackspace, Softlayer, Hetzner, Hivelocity, Online.net and on and on. Add to that people doing their own infrastructure (Apple, Facebook, Google, ...). Companies doing huge colo and on premise (banks, governments). Then consider even larger providers and telcos: AT&T (where WoW was hosted, might still be), Telefonica, Equinix (which I believe AWS was merely a customer of in Singapore at some point), ... That still leaves VPS, shared hosting, and whatever you want to call DO/Linode/Packet/Vultr.