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

scottalanmiller

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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

scottalanmiller

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....

wirestyle22

updated above

brianlittlejohn

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.

scottalanmiller

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!

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.

scottalanmiller

@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!!

wirestyle22

@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

scottalanmiller

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.

scottalanmiller

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.

Alex Sage

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

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.

scottalanmiller

Here is the blog response to that...

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

scottalanmiller

@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.

Alex Sage

Will Mangolassi be moving to Linode?

DustinB3403

@aaronstuder said:

Will Mongolassi be moving to Linode?

Nope Mongolassi doesn't exist!

scottalanmiller

@aaronstuder said:

Will Mangolassi be moving to Linode?

Yes, going to make an attempt of it.

wrx7m

@scottalanmiller said:

Here is the blog response to that...

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

This was really interesting.

Dashrender

@wrx7m said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Here is the blog response to that...

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

This was really interesting.

Wow - this sounds nearly the same as the GRC DDOS attack, only on a HUGE scale.