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    ServerBear Performance Comparison of Rackspace, Digital Ocean, Linode and Vultr

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @IRJ
      last edited by

      @IRJ said:

      @scottalanmiller said:

      @IRJ said:

      @scottalanmiller Is lower better?

      Lower what exactly?

      bench

      Higher is better. I think that IOPS are a small amount, if any, of that score. It's about computational performance.

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      • wirestyle22W
        wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
        last edited by wirestyle22

        @scottalanmiller said:

        We need some latency numbers from around the world. Anyone want to collect some for us?

        Here is the first IP address. A long running ping (hundreds or thousands of pings) would be good, we need the final stats from that:

        • 104.236.119.59
        • 108.61.151.173
        • 172.99.75.133

        We have a good idea on bandwidth, IO, CPU and memory. Network latency is pretty huge.

        104.236.119.59 = 8 MS Average 1,000 pings
        108.61.151.173 = 7 MS Average 1,000 pings
        Mangolassi.it (162.242.243.171) = 14 MS average 500 pings

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          Whoops, sorry. We just killed the RS node because it is expensive 🙂

          You can test that RS ping against mangolassi.it instead. Same location, same node type. Sorry.

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre @scottalanmiller
            last edited by dafyre

            @scottalanmiller said:

            Whoops, sorry. We just killed the RS node because it is expensive 🙂

            You can test that RS ping against mangolassi.it instead. Same location, same node type. Sorry.

            With the RS nodes being so expensive... why would you not stand them up on DO or Vultr?

            Edit: I mean for production and not tests like this.

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            • wirestyle22W
              wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
              last edited by wirestyle22

              @scottalanmiller said:

              Whoops, sorry. We just killed the RS node because it is expensive 🙂

              You can test that RS ping against mangolassi.it instead. Same location, same node type. Sorry.

              Running now. Will update my above post.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @dafyre
                last edited by

                @dafyre said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                Whoops, sorry. We just killed the RS node because it is expensive 🙂

                You can test that RS ping against mangolassi.it instead. Same location, same node type. Sorry.

                With the RS nodes being so expensive... why would you not stand them up on DO or Vultr?

                Edit: I mean for production and not tests like this.

                Well DO and Vultr were not well known or well tested at the time that most of the RS nodes were created. And RS still offers a lot of features that those do not, like load balancers. But these days, the advantages to RS are fewer and fewer.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
                  last edited by

                  @wirestyle22 said:

                  @scottalanmiller said:

                  Whoops, sorry. We just killed the RS node because it is expensive 🙂

                  You can test that RS ping against mangolassi.it instead. Same location, same node type. Sorry.

                  Running now

                  Thanks

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    Right now, we are favouring a migration to Vultr. But the Linode test is running and is a major contender. Information on that to follow....

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                    • wirestyle22W
                      wirestyle22
                      last edited by

                      updated above

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                      • brianlittlejohnB
                        brianlittlejohn
                        last edited by

                        Ping statistics for 108.61.151.173:
                        Packets: Sent = 204, Received = 203, Lost = 1 (0% loss),
                        Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
                        Minimum = 58ms, Maximum = 62ms, Average = 58ms

                        Ping statistics for 104.236.119.59:
                        Packets: Sent = 231, Received = 229, Lost = 2 (0% loss),
                        Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
                        Minimum = 56ms, Maximum = 66ms, Average = 56ms

                        Ping statistics for 162.242.243.171:
                        Packets: Sent = 95, Received = 94, Lost = 1 (1% loss),
                        Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
                        Minimum = 51ms, Maximum = 56ms, Average = 51ms

                        About the same from west Texas.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
                          last edited by

                          OMG WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

                          Linode just took everyone out back and took their lunch money!! They have load balancers too!! (a la Rackspace and Amazone.) Look at that IO capacity!!! And that UNIX Bench! Their single thread was by far the fastest too!

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                          • wirestyle22W
                            wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
                            last edited by wirestyle22

                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            OMG WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

                            Linode just took everyone out back and took their lunch money!! They have load balancers too!! (a la Rackspace and Amazone.) Look at that IO capacity!!! And that UNIX Bench! Their single thread was by far the fastest too!

                            Wow. That's fantastic.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
                              last edited by

                              @wirestyle22 said:

                              Wow. That's fantastic.

                              I'm so excited. No question that they are by FAR the hardest to use, but who cares. That performance is crazy!!

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                              • wirestyle22W
                                wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                @wirestyle22 said:

                                Wow. That's fantastic.

                                I'm so excited. No question that they are by FAR the hardest to use, but who cares. That performance is crazy!!

                                Rewarded complexity is fine by me 😄

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  Throughout the range, Linode comes in either as cheap or cheaper than everyone else, too. It pretty much tracks Vultr until it outscales them. Then it matches or beats DO.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    Of additional consideration... Vultr and RS cap out pretty small. DO and Linode make massive single nodes, which is important when we are running epic databases, which we are doing. The growth rate on the database is quite healthy.

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                                      Alex Sage
                                      last edited by Alex Sage

                                      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/linode_back_at_last_after_ten_days_of_hell/

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                                      • travisdh1T
                                        travisdh1 @Alex Sage
                                        last edited by travisdh1

                                        @aaronstuder said:

                                        http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/linode_back_at_last_after_ten_days_of_hell/

                                        That's just painful, but have to expect that to happen now and then. Guess I'll start an overnight ping test, see how bad it still is.

                                        Edit: Never mind, don't have the IP address for the Linode.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          Here is the blog response to that...

                                          https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospective/

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @travisdh1
                                            last edited by

                                            @travisdh1 said:

                                            Edit: Never mind, don't have the IP address for the Linode.

                                            It's already offline but I will get you a new one privately in a few minutes.

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