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We switched to DigitalOcean a month ago. The servers are 2x faster than rackspace (same RAM size) and we pay only half the price. DigitalOcean doesn't have all
by fotcorn 13y ago
We switched to DigitalOcean a month ago. The servers are 2x faster than rackspace (same RAM size) and we pay only half the price. DigitalOcean doesn't have all the features of rackspace (additional storage, private networks etc.), but the much better performance is everything we need.
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
- kordless 13y agoSSD drives make a huge impact on server performance.
- cnlwsu 13y agois there any benchmarking in comparison with rackspaces SSDs?
- jnoller 13y agoHere is a benchmark from the Rackspace site on SSD performance via Cloud Block Storage: (PDF) http://c744563d32d0468a7cf1-2fe04d8054667ffada6c4002813eccf0.r76.cf1.rackcdn.com/downloads/pdfs/CloudBlockStorage_Benchmark.pdf http://c744563d32d0468a7cf1-2fe04d8054667ffada6c4002813eccf0...
- jread 13y agoI've conducted some independent tests of various block storage options with Rackspace, EC2, HP and GCE. Here are links providing a CSV of the results (may take a few seconds to generate). A value of 100 signifies near performance parity to a baremetal SAS reference system. Overall, Rackspace SSD is performant, but lacks the consistency of EBS PIOPs or GCE persistent storage. IOPS http://app.cloudharmony.com/cloudgrade/api/query/cloudharmony.disk_iops?scopeFilter={%22compute_service_id%22:[%22aws:ec2%22,%22hp:compute%22,%22google:gce%22,%22rackspace:servers%22]}&limit=100&csv http://app.cloudharmony.com/cloudgrade/api/query/cloudharmon... IO Consistency http://app.cloudharmony.com/cloudgrade/api/query/cloudharmony.disk_consistency?scopeFilter={%22compute_service_id%22:[%22aws:ec2%22,%22hp:compute%22,%22google:gce%22,%22rackspace:servers%22]}&limit=100&csv http://app.cloudharmony.com/cloudgrade/api/query/cloudharmon...
- jnoller 13y agoThere's also an excellent writeup by GlusterFS contributor Jeff Darcy: http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/2012/10/rackspace-block-storage/ http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/2012/10/rackspace-bloc...
- flog 13y agoBut DO is a basic service, only VMs, with little control over network, storage, etc.
- 300bps 13y agoDigitalOcean doesn't have all the features of rackspace Looks like no Windows, so no go for me.