Comments on CloudHarmony Blog: Disk IO Benchmarking in the Cloud

This write up is great, thanks for taking the time...

2011-08-29T12:06:41.692-07:00

This write up is great, thanks for taking the time to get the real numbers to make a apples to apples comparison of these hosts (at least on the parallel of IOPS).

Can you add 1AND1.com hosting to your list? I have a few CloudServers on there and have been considering moving to RackSpace for better performance (though cost-wise, 1and1 is MUCH cheaper than RackSpace).

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the feedback... we are in the process o...

2011-03-21T08:35:43.034-07:00

Thanks for the feedback... we are in the process of re-vamping our website to make this information more easily accessible.

Excellent post, very helpful. It would be great i...

2010-09-28T08:48:11.714-07:00

Excellent post, very helpful.

It would be great if you could create a summary of best performance for the price :-)

You really should create this as a dedicated area on your website, as this is must-have info.

Hi, the default root partition of EC2 Standard Ins...

2010-09-09T18:34:14.639-07:00

Hi, the default root partition of EC2 Standard Instance is 10 GB. Did you increase the partition for Amazon's test? Thanks.

Can you add firehost.com as well. Great overview ...

2010-08-25T14:45:27.304-07:00

Can you add firehost.com as well. Great overview much appreciated! :)

Arno, this is the bonnie++ parameters we use: bonn...

2010-08-17T22:02:35.684-07:00

Arno, this is the bonnie++ parameters we use: bonnie++ -n 512 -fq

Hello thanks for the excellent work. Can you pleas...

2010-07-13T06:07:45.290-07:00

Hello thanks for the excellent work. Can you please provide the Bonnie++ command and command line parameters which are used for the test?

Also, 10. Cloud typically offers more advanced fe...

2010-06-09T09:13:42.019-07:00

Also,

10. Cloud typically offers more advanced features like ability to resize servers, autoscaling, load balancing

VPS vs Cloud is often a thin line. Generally speak...

2010-06-09T09:12:52.349-07:00

VPS vs Cloud is often a thin line. Generally speaking distinguishing factors are:

1. Cloud offers pay-as-you-go billing (usually hourly), whereas VPS is usually month-to-month
2. Automated and faster provisioning - servers can be taken on and offline quickly as needed
3. APIs for automated integration
4. Higher durability through use of features like automated backups, load balancing, generally better hardware specs like raid for storage subsystems
5. VPS is generally more focused on small scale web hosting while cloud is more versatile for other more resource intensive applications
6. Some of the lower end VPS providers will really load their servers quite heavily resulting in poor system and network performance
7. VPS tends to be more focused on a less technical user base - web designers, script programmers and the like, and provides management tools like Plesk and Cpanel to make servers easier to manage
8. Not always the case, but VPS tends to be run by smaller organizations that lease a little space out of a data center somewhere. Cloud is generally run by larger organizations that own and manage their own data centers
9. There are some VPS providers that have a lot of overlap with cloud like Linode and VPS.net and there are some providers like Joyent that market themselves as cloud which are really more of VPS

Thanks for the write up, whats the difference betw...

2010-06-09T07:20:12.111-07:00

Thanks for the write up, whats the difference between a normal VPS and a cloud server? I was thinking of buying a VPS from http://beyondhosting.net but keep hearing about all this cloud buzz..

GoGrid storage is local. That is part of the reas...

2010-06-07T11:00:59.370-07:00

GoGrid storage is local. That is part of the reason why we are able to deliver such dramatically better performance.

The wildly varied CloudHarmony test results between providers illuminate why benchmarks are so necessary to help our industry mature. If customers don't understand what they are buying and become disappointed then the entire industry gets a black eye. As GoGrid clearly demonstrates, you should expect SUPERIOR CPU and disk I/O performance on a shared platform cloud server vs. a similarly priced bare metal platform.

Thank you for helping to insure continued progress for the cloud infrastructure industry by helping to establish performance expectations.

John Keagy
CEO
www.GoGrid.com

VPS.net will be added soon.

2010-06-07T05:07:55.235-07:00

VPS.net will be added soon.

Could you add VPS.net to your list of benchmarks?

2010-06-06T22:10:01.415-07:00

Could you add VPS.net to your list of benchmarks?