Re:Show HN: Weekend project - Powerful Webserver on Tiny Har...
by lgeek on Saturday July 27, 2013 @12:20PM
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> I would've thought majority of shared hosting providers have much higher CPU, RAM and ethernet speeds
They do, but when you rent a VPS you're essentially getting to use that hardware in timeslices (and you only get a part of the RAM). Depending on provider, the percentage of time your VM is active (and so it gets to use these resources) is either enforced by the hypervisor, is a result of fair scheduling between clients sharing the hardware, or a combination of both.
I don't have Cortex-A7 hardware to benchmark and compare the CPU speed with VPSes, but I think it should be close to lower end offerings. 1 GB of RAM is usually not even the lowest offering, e.g. DigitalOcean[0], prgmr[1].
They do, but when you rent a VPS you're essentially getting to use that hardware in timeslices (and you only get a part of the RAM). Depending on provider, the percentage of time your VM is active (and so it gets to use these resources) is either enforced by the hypervisor, is a result of fair scheduling between clients sharing the hardware, or a combination of both.
I don't have Cortex-A7 hardware to benchmark and compare the CPU speed with VPSes, but I think it should be close to lower end offerings. 1 GB of RAM is usually not even the lowest offering, e.g. DigitalOcean[0], prgmr[1].
[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing [1] http://prgmr.com/xen/