Comments on: Disk Performance: Slicehost vs. Linode

By: Slicehost vs Linode | ahmedkamel.net

Slicehost vs Linode | ahmedkamel.net — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:05:57 +0000

[...] Disk Performance: Slicehost vs. Linode [December 5th, 2009] [...]

By: Buy Blank CD

Buy Blank CD — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:51:00 +0000

How about the price of these disks? How much is their difference?

By: Jason Mooberry » Blog Archive » A new home

Jason Mooberry » Blog Archive » A new home — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:23:38 +0000

[...] Slicehost and Linode were the two providers that rose to the top. I found some nice benchmarks here and here and a few posts about how linode’s customer service was beating slicehost’s [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:00:42 +0000

Linode does have backup snapshots now ;)

By: iPhone 4 Forum

iPhone 4 Forum — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:12:15 +0000

I've been a Linode customer for about a year now and have been happy with the service.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:32:42 +0000

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

By: Josh Wright

Josh Wright — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:29:29 +0000

The Linode offices are in Absecon (south Jersey), the NJ data center is NAC's Cedar Knolls DC (north Jersey).

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:33:43 +0000

Damn, I'm still calling them “slices”. “I had to move one Linode away”, even :)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:32:31 +0000

I decided to try out Linode because Slicehost's backbone (CogentCo) between the EU and US was down (99%+ packet loss) for half a week, and immediately noticed that the Linode was as fast as my Slice had been when I first got it, and that I wasn't just imagining a slowdown. A popular argument in favor of Xen providers is that they can't possibly oversell CPU and RAM, but you have to think about disk and network too.

I'm satisfied with Linode, but they have a lot of network issues. I had to move one slice away from their Dallas data center completely because of several long outages/maintenances on the backbone per week, but at least I had the option of doing so, and they were quite helpful. There are a few network issues (slowdowns during peak hours, primarily) where I am now (Absecon, NJ data center), but I'm not going back to Slicehost in the foreseeable future.

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RSS Tidbits for 5 July 2010 « SKFox.com — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:23:22 +0000

[...] Disk Performance: Linode vs. Slicehost [...]

By: Carlos Paredes

Carlos Paredes — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:19:33 +0000

I have just found this site googling. I just have detected the Slicehost decreased speed, because when I joined (in 2008) it was pretty fast. Now I get about 3-10 mb/sec on disk, and previously it was well over 100 Mb/sec. The CPU speed is also slightly worse. It seems that they don't upgrade the hardware and continue charging the same money for even cheaper resources (a shared network disk instead a native one).

My current (2010) slicehost performance metrics:

# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null bs=1048576 count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 117.446 s, 9.1 MB/s

$ time pi 1000000 > /dev/null

real 0m12.218s
user 0m6.140s
sys 0m0.050s

My old (2008) slicehost performance metrics:

# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/null bs=1048576 count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 10.3052 seconds, 104 MB/s

$ time pi 1000000 > /dev/null

real 0m10.876s
user 0m10.673s
sys 0m0.204s

Once my current credit expires (in about 12 months) I'll likely switch to another provider.

By: Carlos Paredes

Carlos Paredes — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:19:33 +0000

By: The Universes

The Universes — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 08:26:34 +0000

VPSLink offers excellent resources and performance for the price.
I was curious and ran hdparm -tT on one of my VPS with them and got:
# hdparm -tT /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
Timing cached reads: 20104 MB in 2.00 seconds = 10071.99 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 778 MB in 3.00 seconds = 259.17 MB/sec

By: Arik

Arik — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:58:45 +0000

I use vpslink.com

Their smallest machine, 64MB RAM, is enough for my asterisk box and the occasional SSH tunnel.

By: Israel

Israel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:48:13 +0000

Hi Daniel, What tool do you use to get this numbers?

By: Daniel Miessler

Daniel Miessler — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:41:45 +0000

hdparm -tT

By: Israel

Israel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:40:14 +0000

Hi Daniel, what did you use to get this numbers?

By: Israel

Israel — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:33:40 +0000

Hi Daniel, what did you use to get this numbers?

By: Jed Smith

Jed Smith — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:08:40 +0000

We have them in beta, but they shouldn't be relied upon just yet. File a ticket and I'll set you up with them (Newark's full, but file a ticket anyway).

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uberVU - social comments — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:06:28 +0000

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