Dnia 2010-02-01, pon o godzinie 02:01 +0100, Alexander Staubo pisze: > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Willy Tarreau <w...@1wt.eu> wrote: > > well, last year I helped some guys in charge of a world wide sports > > event which was hosted there. The performance was terrible. Completely > > unstable. [snip] > > > > In this experience, I think that for them, everything was virtual : > > the machines, the network, the support, the availability, the visitors > > and finally the profit. > > Ouch. That's something of a horror story. Thanks for the summary. > This, and several recent blog posts about EC2 performance issues, is > making me want to reconsider EC2. > > The negatives have not been reflected in our own testing of EC2, but > then so far we have only dealt with single, standalone instances which > only depend on external traffic. There is a lot of evidence that EC2 > suffers from internal network latency as well as being overcrowded, at > least in the US. We will need to run some comprehensive performance > tests with multiple instances. > > But it's hard to ignore the myriad of services that Amazon provides. > S3, EBS, autoscaling, Elastic IPs, geographic CDN -- those are all > things we want. A virtually infinite supply of storage space through > EBS is a particularly attractive proposition, and one which I think > very few dedicated hosting companies can provide. We don't want to pay > through the nose for some kind of half-assed SAN setup. > > We might end up deciding to use a dedicated, non-virtual hosting > provider. That assumes we can find one that lets us cheaply and > quickly (eg., within a day or two) add or remove new machines. There > are a bunch of providers like that in the US, but I don't know of any > reputable ones in Europe. Do you know of any? >
OVH is quite okay. From VPS i'd recommend linode.com (they have data centers in europe and US), much faster than Amazon, and also have some kind of API -- Mariusz Gronczewski (XANi) <xani...@gmail.com> GnuPG: 0xEA8ACE64 http://devrandom.pl
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