Vincent, I would appreciate that you stop assuming things based on zero information about what I am doing. I understand that you are trying to be helpful, but I can assure you that going bare-metal only does not make any sense in my context.
Sébastien On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Vincent Veyron <vv.li...@wanadoo.fr>wrote: > Le mercredi 22 août 2012 à 13:15 +0800, Craig Ringer a écrit : > > > He appears to be suggesting that buying access to real hardware in a > > datacenter (if not buying the hardware yourself) is more cost effective > > and easier to manage than using "cloud" style services with more > > transient hosts like EC2 offers. At least that's how I understood it. > > Hi Craig, > > Actually, my comments about costs were misleading : I simply reacted to > the fact that the OP wanted to test his application for high > performance, and thought that it would be easier with bare metal rather > than with AWS, because you have less parameters to control this way. > > Also, I'll admit that I jumped the gun without reading about the SSD > offer by Amazon. Still, I would test first with a machine that I > control, but it maybe that Sébastien already did that. > > I am curious to know what kind of application requires 10s to 100s of > instances with a PostgreSQL database, because that could get unwieldy > with big data (which I assumed from the high performance specification) > > -- > Vincent Veyron > http://marica.fr/ > Gestion informatique des sinistres d'assurances et des dossiers > contentieux pour le service juridique > >
