On 4/8/2013 3:15 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote:
Could someone explain to me the point of using an AWS instance in the
case of the OP, whose site is apparently very busy, versus renting a
bare metal server in a datacenter?
I am the OP, but I can't provide a complete answer, since personally
(e.g. a
On Apr 8, 2013, at 2:15 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote:
> Could someone explain to me the point of using an AWS instance in the
> case of the OP, whose site is apparently very busy, versus renting a
> bare metal server in a datacenter?
Well, at least in my experience, you don't go to AWS because the da
Le dimanche 07 avril 2013 à 11:19 -0700, Ben Chobot a écrit :
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> Overall I won't say that you can get amazing DB performance inside
> AWS, but you can certainly get reasonable performance with enough
> PIOPs volumes and memory, and while the on-demand cost is absurd
> compared to what you can bu
On 7.4.2013 19:43, David Boreham wrote:
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> I thanks very much for your detailed response. A few answers below inline:
>
> On 4/7/2013 9:38 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
>> As for the performance, AFAIK the EBS volumes always had, and probably
>> will have, a 32 MB/s limit. Thanks to caching, built int
On Apr 6, 2013, at 6:51 PM, David Boreham wrote:
> First I need to say that I'm asking this question on behalf of "a friend",
> who asked me what I thought on the subject -- I host all the databases
> important to me and my livelihood, on physical machines I own outright. That
> said, I'm curi
I thanks very much for your detailed response. A few answers below inline:
On 4/7/2013 9:38 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote:
As for the performance, AFAIK the EBS volumes always had, and probably
will have, a 32 MB/s limit. Thanks to caching, built into the EBS, the
performance may seem much better ini
Hi David,
On 7.4.2013 03:51, David Boreham wrote:
>
> First I need to say that I'm asking this question on behalf of "a
> friend", who asked me what I thought on the subject -- I host all the
> databases important to me and my livelihood, on physical machines I own
> outright. That said, I'm curi
First I need to say that I'm asking this question on behalf of "a
friend", who asked me what I thought on the subject -- I host all the
databases important to me and my livelihood, on physical machines I own
outright. That said, I'm curious as to the current thinking on a)
whether it is wise,
