On 7/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ashraf Amayreh</b> <<a href="mailto:mistknight@gmail.com">mistknight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">> Even on a relatively inexpensive Xen VPS (forget Virtuozzo or OpenVZ,
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> they are slow), performance is really snappy.<br>
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I was actually disturbed when I saw this as my host is a VPS host that
uses OpenVZ. So I did a little search and I'm not so sure this
statement is accurate, not that I really care, but I'd rather be getting the best option for my money so I thought I'd point this benchmark out.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/openvz/14024.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://community.livejournal.com/openvz/14024.html</a></blockquote><div><br>Here is the original article that I wrote (not a formal benchmark)
<br><a href="http://2bits.com/articles/hosting-virtualization-openvz-vs-xen-which-is-best.html">http://2bits.com/articles/hosting-virtualization-openvz-vs-xen-which-is-best.html</a> <br></div><br>Workhabit, who do a lot of hosting (Firebright), have the same observation on
<br>Xen vs Virtuozzo.<br><a href="http://www.workhabit.org/fifteen-tips-for-capacity-planning-and-initial-deployments-for-startups">http://www.workhabit.org/fifteen-tips-for-capacity-planning-and-initial-deployments-for-startups
</a><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span class="e" id="q_113ad60cd4e9b5ab_2"><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/10/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Jonas M Luster</b> <<a href="mailto:jluster@jluster.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
jluster@jluster.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> * an infrastructure for users from fundamentalist/oppressive countries
<br>> to communicate without fear of repercussion (Bloggers without<br>> Borders). BwoB is in active use inside some NGOs and would not have<br>> been possible with any other application or application framework in
<br>> the extend and ease of implementation as it is with Drupal.<br><br>I should have mentioned that these are areas where "peppy" speed is<br>more than paramount and hardware isn't available in masses and
<br>qualities we know in the US. Still, VERY peppy, still serving 90k<br>users a day, holding up well during Katherina and the Tsunami in<br>South-East Asia, even when Slashdotted, NPR-dotted, and CNN-dotted the<br>same day.
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