On 18 Jun 2013, at 17:24, "Esteban A. Maringolo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did some tests with AWS EC2, and it is good to know to know Pharo is so
> simple to install in this provider.
>
> It looks more like a VPS provider, or am I missing something? Because I
> haven't seen an autoscaling (up or out) option there.
> Do you know if they support something similar to Elastic IP?
No, you just get a simple machine ('VPS', but they are all virtual, right) of
some size and then you are on your own.
AWS has lots and lots of more options, API's and services.
> Regards,
>
> Esteban A. Maringolo
>
>
> 2013/6/18 Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> I am a fan of Amazon AWS's Cloud Services. But it is not perfect.
>
> Enter Digital Ocean (https://www.digitalocean.com), an easier to use, simpler
> cloud hosting provider, that is cheaper and seems faster. You get a raw
> machine, so you still need some basic Unix admin skills, but apart from that
> it cannot get much easier.
>
> For just $5 a month you get this:
>
> <Screen Shot 2013-06-18 at 16.00.41.png>
> As an SSD based machine, it feels very fast. I did some quick benchmarks at
> the Pharo level which show that this virtualised hardware is up to 10x faster
> than an Amazon AWS EC2 micro instance, and up to 3x faster than an Amazon AWS
> EC2 small instance. Its just a bit slower than my top of the line MacBook Air:
>
> root@stfx:~# ./pharo Pharo.image eval '1 tinyBenchmarks'
> '764749813 bytecodes/sec; 94679619 sends/sec'
>
> To get started on the empty machine, just do
>
> root@stfx:~# curl get.pharo.org/30+vm | bash
>
> If you picked a 32 bit Ubuntu, you only need to do
>
> root@stfx:~# apt-get install libssl0.9.8
>
> Starting a Zn server is dead easy:
>
> root@stfx:~# ./pharo Pharo.image eval --no-quit 'ZnServer startDefaultOn:
> 1701' &
>
> Have a look at:
>
> http://82.196.12.54:1701
>
> Which is a single vm+image instance.
>
> Local network performance is quite good:
>
> root@stfx:~# ab -k -n 1024 -c 4 http://localhost:1701/bytes
>
> Server Software: Zinc
> Server Hostname: localhost
> Server Port: 1701
>
> Document Path: /bytes
> Document Length: 64 bytes
>
> Concurrency Level: 4
> Time taken for tests: 0.584 seconds
> Complete requests: 1024
> Failed requests: 0
> Write errors: 0
> Keep-Alive requests: 1024
> Total transferred: 243712 bytes
> HTML transferred: 65536 bytes
> Requests per second: 1753.68 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 2.281 [ms] (mean)
> Time per request: 0.570 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
> Transfer rate: 407.59 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> I also tried a big config based build that downloaded and compiled about 1Gb
> worth of .mcz and that took less than 4 minutes which is also quite fast.
>
> Of course, you get way fewer features than with Amazon AWS (the total
> ecosystem). But for the price it seems hard to beat.
>
> Have fun !
>
> Sven
>
> PS: Feel free to do me a favour by using this link
> https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=6a0334a169dc
>
> --
> Sven Van Caekenberghe
> Proudly supporting Pharo
> http://pharo.org
> http://association.pharo.org
> http://consortium.pharo.org
>
>
>
