Stallion
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Milwaukee
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Anyone ever host anything on here? I've thinking about setting up a CentOS VM to host a website I'll be making in the near future.
I'm curious how this works exactly. In my experiences, virtual machines are significantly slower than a native OS. Can one expect slow performance from the cloud? I've never really messed around with servers before, so forgive my ignorance. I know our "dev" environment at work is slower than hell and that is 3 virtual machines hosted on a ~5k server. Then, our application servers (jboss) run on a dedicated CPU w/ 16gb ram and they fly. ...and calling/e-mailing/texting ex-girlfriends on the off-chance they'll invite you over for some "old time's sake" no-strings couch gymnastics... |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: In your dock hiding behind your finder icon!
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Modern virtual machines run at near native speed for most operations, assuming the host is configured correctly.
I have been running my hosting business on virtual machines for 6 months now with no noticable difference from my old dedicated server. OK, I have given up keeping this sig up to date. Lets just say I'm the guy that installs every latest version as soon as its available! |
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Stallion
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Milwaukee
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Good to know. Thanks!
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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At my job, we've long been moving toward having as many production servers actually running on VMs as possible. We just recently crossed the 200 count for VMs managed across several big hardware clusters and the number just keeps rising. VMware's VirtualCenter makes managing these things super-easy. Need more memory or disk space? Just a few clicks away. Want to clone an existing VM? Just a few clicks away. Want to move a VM to a different physical machine? Just a few clicks away. You can also schedule jobs to check the health of and manage your VMs' resources for you. Virtualization is truly a godsend for IT administration. Granted, some tasks really do need dedicated hardware. Our database, for example, sits on a few dedicated POWER servers with something like 30 logical CPUs, mountains of RAM, fibre attached storage, and several redundant systems. But for a general-purpose web server? VMs all the way, baby! The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Since it's pay as you go/use, it shouldn't be too costly to just take it for a spin and see if it'll meet your needs.
This page provides some detail on what kind of compute resources are available for the EC2 instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ |
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So is this service competing with something like linode? Or are they 2 completely different things?
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