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Ian Mercer » Amazon http://blog.abodit.com Living in the World's Smartest House Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:50:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Amazon High-CPU Medium Instance is about 30% slower than a dedicated core 2 duo server http://blog.abodit.com/2009/05/amazon-high-cpu-medium-instance-is-about-30-slower-than-a-dedicated-core-2-duo-server/ http://blog.abodit.com/2009/05/amazon-high-cpu-medium-instance-is-about-30-slower-than-a-dedicated-core-2-duo-server/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 07:21:00 +0000 Ian Mercer http://blog.abodit.com/?p=31 More >]]>

Recently we benchmarked a dedicated GoDaddy server against an Amazon EC2 instance and $ for $ the GoDaddy server was about 30% faster. Here are some stats:

Godaddy Dedicated Server

2 GB memory

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo – 2.13 GHz

32-bit platform

Raid: None

$146 per month

UPDATETEXT … – Took 116ms

SLIDEHANDLER3 … – Took 2722ms

Amazon EC2: High-CPU Medium Instance

1.7 GB memory

5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual core with 2.5 EC2 Compute Unit each)

32-bit platform

I/O Performance: Moderate

Instance Type name: c1.medium (used in EC2 APIs)

Price: $0.20 per instance hour

$144 per month

UPDATETEXT … – Took 144ms

SLIDEHANDLER3 … – Took 3525ms

Conclusion: So unless you need proximity to Amazon S3, scalability, … you are better off with a dedicated server than an instance in the cloud.

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