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Originally Posted by L0stMind
Get a rackspace cloud server. Run bonnie or just do a dd.
If you can pull over 25mb/s let me know. I can't. Not with softlayer, rackspace, amazon (CRAP) or even most VPS providers.
Now, I am biased I suppose, being a host. But I don't push my hosting to this community, I target local business mostly. Adult needs far more bandwidth and lower cost per mbps then I can typically offer nowadays. That doesn't mean I don't work my servers to eke out every drop of performance I can though. My office does a lot of benchmarking and testing on this stuff... likely webair does more but then they have to be 10-20x larger then us  |
I tend to disagree with your opinion on a couple of accounts, good feedback though!
First of all the
WEBAIR Cloud Hosting Solutions have been out for awhile now (Well over a year). It has been extremely fast, flexible, and stable, not to mention redundant. With regards to benchmarking we have easily pushed well over 100 mbps live video streaming on our smallest VPS package w/o any tweaking or crazy customization.
We don't look at our Cloud offerings as a replacement solution for everyone, it has place between our other product offerings, however as we've been improving its technology and capacity its starting to make sense for more and more type of clients.
As an example take a low end single dedicated server. You have multiple points of failure there. Single hard drives prone to failure, power supply motherboard, CPUs, and even RAID cards which are not the 100% reliable devices that people tend to think they are.
Compare that to a VPS that may be half the price, which gives you the same guaranteed memory/CPU, sits live on MULTIPLE physical servers, each of which can fail without any impact to you, and which utilizes the cloud storage network so you can grow your capacity needs endlessly without having to worry about drives filling or failing.
Now can you take a multi-gigabit load balanced setup and replace it with a few VPSes? No, but the decision is still open for optimization and increases to your infrastructure's efficiency.
Thanks for your feedback LM!