Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
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Re: Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
#2Here is the original post: http://www.cosninix.com/wp/2013/06/amazon-aws-ec2-linode-dig...
Re: Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
#3There are at least two tools which are very useful in such comparisons - http://www.cloudorado.com for pricing, and http://cloudharmony.com/ for benchmarks.
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#4...and the author is using Laravel, which delivers stunningly terrible latency and throughput performance in the techempower benchmarks:
http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Would be nice to see similar benchmarks using a framework that doesn't resemble a honeypot's tarpit.
Re: Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
#5Yes, amazon is 'overpriced' if what you're looking at is CPU or disk speed (which is not a bad metric, really). Where amazon shines is the amount of programmatic interaction you can do with it - have build scripts kick off an EC2 instance to run tests, send reports, shut it down. Programmatically bring up more instances during peak times, spin them down at night, etc.
AFAICT, Linode doesn't offer that, and they probably won't. Amazon's been ahead in this arena for awhile, and will probably keep that lead for the forseeable future. EDIT: Apparently they do have an API which would cover a decent variety of use cases.
What's sad is the number of people that migrate over to Amazon because it's the done thing, without realizing what they're paying for (and that they're not utilizing the unique features of EC2).
Re: Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
#6...and the author is using Laravel, which delivers stunningly terrible latency and throughput performance in the techempower benchmarks: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ Would be nice to see similar benchmarks using a framework that doesn't resemble a honeypot's tarpit.
agreed, but... the benchmarks given also show a marked difference between amazon ec2 and direct hardware - ec2 seems to be the common culprit.
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#7Linode for hosting, DO for experimenting and Amazon for Glacier, the combination worked well for me.
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#8"Is Amazon overpriced"
Well, yeah. If you use it as just commodity servers. At Radius, we migrated our index build process over to using Elastic Map Reduce on spot-priced servers and it's been a huge cost savings.
Long story short, move to Amazon if you want elasticity and can design around saving from their services. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
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#9I think the reason many choose Amazon is also all the other services they offer, keeping everything under the same umbrella.
Re: Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
#10...and the author is using Laravel, which delivers stunningly terrible latency and throughput performance in the techempower benchmarks: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ Would be nice to see similar benchmarks using a framework that doesn't resemble a honeypot's tarpit.
Hi. Laravel user/contributor here. I suggest you try the framework before judging it based on a benchmark. Not sure about their system/code, but a large production application with APC (Laravel 3.2.14, just like the benchmark) has a latency of 90-120ms, and some of those pages are pretty complex.