On 7/9/07, Ashraf Amayreh <mistknight@gmail.com> wrote:
Even on a relatively inexpensive Xen VPS (forget Virtuozzo or OpenVZ, they are slow), performance is really snappy.
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.
Here is the original article that I wrote (not a formal benchmark) http://2bits.com/articles/hosting-virtualization-openvz-vs-xen-which-is-best... Workhabit, who do a lot of hosting (Firebright), have the same observation on Xen vs Virtuozzo. http://www.workhabit.org/fifteen-tips-for-capacity-planning-and-initial-depl... On 7/10/07, Jonas M Luster < jluster@jluster.org> wrote:
* an infrastructure for users from fundamentalist/oppressive countries
to communicate without fear of repercussion (Bloggers without Borders). BwoB is in active use inside some NGOs and would not have been possible with any other application or application framework in the extend and ease of implementation as it is with Drupal.
I should have mentioned that these are areas where "peppy" speed is more than paramount and hardware isn't available in masses and qualities we know in the US. Still, VERY peppy, still serving 90k users a day, holding up well during Katherina and the Tsunami in South-East Asia, even when Slashdotted, NPR-dotted, and CNN-dotted the same day.
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