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Digital Ocean, Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure benchmarked and compared

by mitchwainer on 8/29/13, 2:17 PM with 7 comments

  • by ambiate on 8/29/13, 2:35 PM

    This is considered a benchmark and comparison?

    Edit: Ok, rather than being an arse, some feedback: The IOWait tidbit was interesting and worth the click on its own.

    Build times and bandwidth should vary based on usage on the shared host. Run the tests every 3 hours for 2-3 days and use those results.

    More interesting information would consist of what your plan of attack will be for scaling with more power/storage/etc. If necessity dictates the need for more, will it be as easy as a few clicks (and $$$$) with DO as compared to Azure/Amazon?

  • by joshka on 8/29/13, 3:17 PM

    Can you please post the benchmark technique to allow for reproduction?

    My colleagues and I often use client's hardware rather than our own to work on their project. The mono source sounds like a good stress test to guague the pain and implement preventative upgrades early in the piece.

    For comparison's sake, `time make` of mono-3.2.1 from tarball on a 2012 Macbook Pro Retina / 2.6GHz / 16 GB RAM / 512 GB SSD returns:

        make  583.12s user 77.90s system 98% cpu 11:11.99 total
    This seems slow compared to digital ocean. I wonder if there's something I'm not setting. My settings per [1] were:

        ./configure --prefix=/Users/joshka/Code/mono --enable-nls=no --build=i386-apple-darwin11.2.0
    [1]: http://www.mono-project.com/Compiling_Mono_on_OSX

  • by endijs on 8/29/13, 2:39 PM

    Those micro articles about DO start to annoy as much as 'github down' ones. Three up-votes and already on front page... Something is not right here. I have nothing against DO (I use them too), but if site is on front page I would like to see much more detailed benchmarks.

  • by pella on 8/29/13, 9:05 PM

  • by hemancuso on 8/29/13, 2:38 PM

    That's a lot of effort to determine that compiling a large source tree is way faster with a SSD.