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Re:Another reason why Docker containers may be slow by benjaminl on Thursday April 05, 2018 @10:01PM (#16770366)
That would by Joyent [0] the makers of SmartOS (Basically, Open Source Solaris). Their Triton cloud product uses SmartOS under the hood.

[0] - https://www.joyent.com/smartos

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Re:Another reason why Docker containers may be slow by amdavidson on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:07AM (#16772555)
They're not exactly competitive:

https://www.joyent.com/pricing/cloud/compute

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

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Re:Another reason why Docker containers may be slow by benjaminl on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:44AM (#16772752)
They claim to be half the price of AWS [0]. Digital Ocean isn't relevant here as they don't offer container hosting.

[0] - https://www.joyent.com/pricing/compare

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Re:Another reason why Docker containers may be slow by amdavidson on Friday April 06, 2018 @01:00PM (#16774871)
In your link, they're comparing to EC2 VMs not Amazon's Container hosting.

Their whole premise is that their containers are equivalent to/better than VMs[0].

0: https://www.joyent.com/blog/understanding-triton-containers

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Re:Another reason why Docker containers may be slow by oblio on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:35AM (#16772029)
So your solution is 1 vendor? Doesn’t seem too realistic.
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