200 IOPS is criminal, another well known provider is 'promoting' their SSD backed servers with a default IOP of 100.... why bother having SSD's when it will perform worse than a single 10k SAS drive....
On 5 November 2013 17:13, Jeremy Visser <jer...@visser.name> wrote: > On 5 Nov 2013, at 3:58 pm, Voytek Eymont <li...@sbt.net.au> wrote: > > "In addition it has also become clear that customers may also be able to > generate high IO load in a similar manner to this maintenance with the > potential to affect other clients systems. As a result we have now > implemented hard IO limits on all VPS in the cluster (200IOPS)" > > Are you sure 200 IOPS isn’t a typo? If not, you are being ripped off. > > I use Linode, for example, and I get *warning* alerts (not a hard limit) > by default at 1000 IOPS, and even that warning threshold is configurable. > > Linode has been benchmarked at much better than 200 IOPS: > http://serverbear.com/10-linode-1gb-linode > > Even though on that ServerBear site, Linode doesn’t score particularly > high in terms of I/O, I can tell you now, the crap that you’ve gone through > generally Just Doesn’t Happen™. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
