Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks

Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by niggler on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @10:34AM (#5207392)

How are the "requests per second" measured? (I assume that something like `ab` is used, but I'm wondering if it run on the same machine or from an external machine ...)

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Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by jacques_chester on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @10:38AM (#5207412)

Don't fuss about it.

HN loves benchmark porn. Throw some dramatic charts up, show approximately zilch methodological control, voila: front page.

(Complete with sarky comments like this one.)

My personal question is: are DigitalOcean making a profit?

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Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by niggler on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @10:47AM (#5207473)

"are DigitalOcean making a profit?" -- pandodaily is mentioned on the home page, so I'm guessing no.

Let's suppose for a moment that I actually wanted to do a performance comparison for my own purposes (which means I actually care about the actual results). How would I do it right?

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Re:Linode vs. DigitalOcean – performance benchmarks by zagi on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @11:03AM (#5207591)

>My personal question is: are DigitalOcean making a profit?

Yes. If you do the math they actually do break even and manage to squeeze some profit.

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