On 18 October 2014 19:49, Rod Beck <rod.b...@hibernianetworks.com> wrote: > How oversubscribed are these virtual private servers? I understand there is > no simple answer to that question. But any insight would be appreciated.
depending on how you monitor a VM, you should be able to measure CPU cycle stealing, which is the time when your VM could or should have been running but there was no CPU at all! The math is simple. Just by way of example, suppose your provider doesn't over-allocate resources at all then there will be no cycle stealing. This is likely to be relatively expensive, since if you're expecting to have sole use of 2 cores in a £5k server with 16 cores, your "share" would be over £50 a month.
