The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more

Post by abronte » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 8:15 PM UTC

giulianob wrote: post #175

__xtrimsky wrote: post #172

I still prefer OVH.com http://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-classic.xml for $7 you get: 2 cores 2GB RAM for 10$ you get: 3 cores 4GB RAM They don't have SSD, but SSD doesn't do everything, I prefer more ram. EDIT: If some of you don't know OVH, it's because its new in America, but its not some cheap company, it's a European company that is very successful there. And just recently created a datacenter in North America. (I us…

Can you run https://github.com/mgutz/vpsbench and see how the performance is to compare?

  _04/17/2014 - VMPLAN - DATACENTER - OS - AUTHOR_
  ```
  CPU model:  AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 4386
  Number of cores: 4
  CPU frequency:  3100.000 MHz
  Total amount of RAM: 3943 MB
  Total amount of swap: 1998 MB
  System uptime:   10 days, 2:25,
  I/O speed:  169 MB/s
  Bzip 25MB: 5.34s
  Download 100MB file: 15.8MB/s
  ```

Post by teekert » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 8:31 PM UTC

voidlogic wrote: post #153

madsushi wrote: post #77

Why do I pay Linode $20/month instead of paying DO $5/month(1)? Because Linode treats their servers like kittens (upgrades, addons/options, support), and DO treats their servers like cattle. There's nothing wrong with the cattle model of managing servers. But I'm not using Chef or Puppet, I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary ser…

>I just have one server that I use to put stuff up on the internet and host a few services. And Linode treats that one solitary server better than any other VPS host in the world. I use DO for this and have used many others in the past and I have never had any problems with DO...

Post by bearbin » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 8:41 PM UTC

notastartup wrote: post #82

sergiotapia wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ramnode is fantastic and cheap. http://www.ramnode.com

$2/month is enticing, but 128mb ram seems impossible. even 256mb is pushing it.

Post by kh_hk » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 8:46 PM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #36

Cool news, but their website now has the same lame design as DigitalOcean. I liked the old site layout better.

Post by kyrra » Thu, Apr 17, 2014, 9:01 PM UTC

Nux wrote: post #110

kyrra wrote: post #55

I forgot to benchmark the disk before I upgraded but here are some simple disk benchmarks on an upgraded linode (the $20 plan, now with SSD) $ dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 1.31593 s, 816 MB/s $ hdparm -tT /dev/xvda /dev/xvda: Timing cached reads: 19872 MB in 1.98 seconds = 10020.63 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 2558…

Throughput speed is not everything, in many situations latency is more important. Can you give results for this? dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync I'm getting "6.40264 s, 120 kB/s" on my laptop's SSD, but on a proper server with a RAID card and cache enabled I get "0.187033 s, 4.1 MB/s".

  $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=512 count=1500 oflag=dsync
  1500+0 records in
  1500+0 records out
  768000 bytes (768 kB) copied, 0.427272 s, 1.8 MB/s