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Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2

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Re: Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2

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Post by avargas »

Most people have the misconception of how micro instances work. They are micro because they are given resources that aren't being used by the other allocated instances. Therefore, this really doesn't compare to the Raspberry pi at all. Try doing a small instance instead which has a fixed set of resources, and it's the smallest one of them all.

Re: Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2

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Post by ck2 »

mikro2nd wrote: post #6

Sadly the link to the followup ( http://www.evilsoapbox.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1612 ) fails with a database authentication error.

Here you go:

http://www.chimerasaurus.com/2013/02/raspberry-pi-vs-aws-v2-...

The dynamic link, ie. ?p=1234 has to be served dynamically but the static slug can be served by supercache or similar.

What I find far more fascinating:

    EXT3: 329.83 requests/sec
    EXT4: 484.27 requests/sec
ext4 is 30% faster than ext3? Really? What's going on there...

Re: Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2

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Post by itry »

ck2 wrote: post #7
mikro2nd wrote: post #6

Sadly the link to the followup ( http://www.evilsoapbox.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1612 ) fails with a database authentication error.

Here you go: http://www.chimerasaurus.com/2013/02/raspberry-pi-vs-aws-v2-... The dynamic link, ie. ?p=1234 has to be served dynamically but the static slug can be served by supercache or similar. What I find far more fascinating: EXT3: 329.83 requests/sec EXT4: 484.27 requests/sec ext4 is 30% faster than ext3? Really? What's going on there...

Strange indeed. Why is the disk accessed in the first place? For a site like this, I would expect all content to be cached in ram all the time.

Re: Nginx Requests/Second - Raspberry Pi vs. Amazon EC2

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Post by kayoone »

The follow-up is much more interesting: http://www.chimerasaurus.com/2013/02/raspberry-pi-vs-aws-v2-...

However, the only thing this shows is that AWS micro instances are really slow. In the follow-up the author argues that while a small instance is much faster, its also much more expensive. While thats true i dont get the point, the pi is just not a good choice as a public webserver and if you were to use it that way you would need to co-locate it and costs would probably be comparable.

If on the other hand, you use both enviroments for heavy computing purposes it doesnt make sense to bill the EC2 instance with 24/7 as it probably would not need to be on all the time.

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