Re: Amazon High I/O instances

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Vincent Veyron <vv(dot)lists(at)wanadoo(dot)fr> wrote:

> Le mardi 21 août 2012 à 01:33 -0400, Sébastien Lorion a écrit :
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> > Since Amazon has added new high I/O instance types and EBS volumes,
> > anyone has done some benchmark of PostgreSQL on them ?
> >
>
> I wonder : is there a reason why you have to go through the complexity
> of such a setup, rather than simply use bare metal and get good
> performance with simplicity?
>
> For instance, the dedibox I use for my app (visible in sig) costs 14,00
> euros/month, and sits at .03% load average with 5 active users; you can
> admin it like a home pc.
>

The main use cases I know of are relatively small instances where the web
server and db server for an app may be on the same system.

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