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by jread 16y ago
Here are a few cloud providers I'm aware of that offer "fully managed" or advanced support options: EC2 (with premium support - pricey) Storm on Demand SoftLayer Storm on Demand is a new IaaS platform backed by Liquid Web. Pricing is reason
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by jread 16y ago
You're right, I meant 0.5-14GB, I hadn't noticed their new 16 and 20GB instances.
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by jread 16y ago
It could, but it is extremely rare. Check out http://cloudexchange.org to see historical pricing. A spot instance cannot be changed to standard pricing.
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by jread 16y ago
> No diff in utilization. You can still use the API elastically spin up new instances, if at a different scale. They both have APIs, but EC2 has hourly billing versus monthly for Linode (they issue service credits pro-rated daily if you
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by jread 16y ago
If you want to get the lowest pricing on EC2, use a spot instance request where your bid price >= standard pricing (i.e. 0.085/hr for m1.small). This will essentially get you a spot priced, but indefinitely persistent instance and you'l
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by jread 16y ago
Linode is VPS, EC2 is cloud computing. Although I agree that Linode is probably the best VPS provider around, EC2 provides a lot of cloud features that Linode does not including CloudWatch monitoring, autoscaling, external EBS storage, grea
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by jread 16y ago
I don't necessary agree with this post. Many m1 hosts have been upgraded from the original Opteron 2218 hardware to Xeon E5430. In the US East region you may still end up getting an m1.small 2218 though. EC2 fixes CPU allocation, so you won
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by jread 16y ago
I had some issues with google charts trying to show all the results in one. All of the charts use the same scale, but does require some inconvenient scrolling.
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Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 4: Memory IO(blog.cloudharmony.com)
14 points by jread 16y ago|2 comments
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by jread 16y ago
I'm in the process of doing that... however, for now access requires a user and password which could change over time so I'd prefer not to post it here publicly. If you email I'll provide the access, no strings attached. I'm looking to get
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by jread 16y ago
MaxCDN is a really good value and the cheapest for an anycast cdn. vps.net resells akamai for $100/TB ($0.10/GB) which is also a great deal although you don't get netstorage with that (origin pull only). Simplecdn is not a great cdn, we've
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by jread 16y ago
If you'd like to see the full results of these CDN tests (about 4 months worth of testing so far), I have created a report that shows performance of each CDN globally and broken down into 32 different regions (i.e. US West, EU West, APAC, e
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by jread 16y ago
If anyone is interested, I've tested bandwidth performance of all of these CDNs using a CDN speedtest here: http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest I pay users on mechanical turk to run the speedtest and get about 1000 tests run each month from
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by jread 16y ago
http://uptime.cloudharmony.com If you click on any of the Linode links, you can see when outages occurred, how long they were, and usually an explanation of the outage (if Linode provided one to me)
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by jread 16y ago
Usually a good outsourced provider will have measures in place to monitor and pro-actively deal with hardware failures as well as maintain standbys and replacement parts onsite. My point is simply that by outsourcing you don't have to deal
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by jread 16y ago
I agree it is cheaper (I have a full cabinet of hardware co-located myself), but at the expense of being on call 24x7x365. Although hardware is generally reliable, it can and does fail. Do you want to be the guy dealing with the burned out
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Quickbooks Online down for hours, anyone know of a decent alternative?
1 points by jread 16y ago|2 comments
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by jread 16y ago
Not only that, but Linode doesn't cap bandwidth based on node size. I've been able to get up to almost 200 Mb/s out of a Linode 360 whereas the smallest slice (256) is capped at 10 Mb/s
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by jread 16y ago
Linode has 5 data centers. I've maintained a node in each of them the past six months with the following results: Dallas: 99.959% Newark: 99.971% London: 99.986% Fremont: 99.992% Atlanta: 100% I've heard from others here that Atlanta has be
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by jread 16y ago
We've done some performance and price comparisons of different providers including Linode and Slicehost (a.k.a. RackspaceCloud). In that price range there are a lot of options you could consider with cloud providers. Although cloud is gener
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by jread 16y ago
+1 NameCheap - $10/yr, automated ordering & no chain file
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by jread 16y ago
Storm on Demand (by LiquidWeb) and GigeNet are pretty good. Storm starts at $50/mo for dedicated CPU core and 2GB, GigeNet starts at $10/mo for 384MB and shared CPU
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Cloud Server Benchmarking Part 3: Java, Ruby, Python & PHP(blog.cloudharmony.com)
3 points by jread 16y ago|0 comments
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Google Storage, a CDN/Storage Hybrid?(blog.cloudharmony.com)
3 points by jread 16y ago|0 comments
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by jread 16y ago
EC2's IO performance depends on type of instance storage (ephemeral or EBS) used and instance size. The m2.* instance sizes with EBS actually outperformed rackspace in our tests, whereas m1.small performed about 2/3 slower than Rackspace.
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Storage IO Benchmark Results from 20 IaaS Providers(blog.cloudharmony.com)
1 points by jread 16y ago|2 comments
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by jread 16y ago
We have nodes in all 5 Linode data centers. Currently only the Dallas node is down. We document all outages here: http://cloudharmony.com/status (click on the Linode links to view previous outages and outage documentation). Atlanta has be
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What is an ECU? CPU Benchmarking in the Cloud(blog.cloudharmony.com)
2 points by jread 16y ago|0 comments
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Connecting Clouds - Summary of Intracloud Network Testing(blog.cloudharmony.com)
2 points by jread 17y ago|0 comments
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by jread 17y ago
There was initially erroneous data reported for S3 EU West. The post has since been amended to correct this data.

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