@Jeff
No bad intentions neither for his objectivity nor your findings.
I just wanted to say that product - comparison publications should not
depend on products/services compared for an income, it is a matter of
principle.
I would be grateful if you could possibly share your own tests

Nick


On May 20, 1:55 am, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you're worried about his objectivity, it's worth noting that
> Slicehost performed very poorly - worse than EC2 in most tests.  Most
> likely, he mentions the referral page for Linode and Slicehost because
> they are the only providers that offer an affiliate program.
>
> In the absence of any reason to doubt his statistics, I'll take them
> at face value.  That said, they're 1.5 years old now.  The hybrid part
> of one of my GAE applications is CPU-intensive, and when/if it hits
> scale I will be doing a fair amount of this research on my own.
>
> Jeff
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> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, nickmilon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > @Jeff
> > I would question any comparisons that ends like "If you’re going to
> > buy a VPS I’d appreciate it if you used my referral page for Linode or
> > for Slicehost when doing so."
> > I would prefer a "donate button" and most probably I would contribute.
>
> > Nick Milon
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> > On May 19, 9:55 pm, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Stephen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Jeff Schnitzer <[email protected]> 
> >> > wrote:
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> >> >> This is not too surprising; if you look at the rest of the cloud
> >> >> industry, almost all services are priced by the amount of RAM used and
> >> >> make no mention of how much CPU is allocated.
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> >> >http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
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> >> > CPU/RAM ratio seems pretty linear.
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> >>http://www.linode.com/index.cfmhttp://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_h...
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> >> And for kicks, here's a peformance comparison (conclusion: "EC2 sucks"):
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> >>http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison/
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> >> Jeff
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