Mohamed from CityNetHost has sent me this offer. By using promo code LEB50 you can get 50% recurring discount on any VPS plans. So for $3/month you can get the following VPS in Egypt.
- 128MB memory
- 5GB storage
- 200GB/month data transfer
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
Not really an “exclusive offer” as a similar offer exists on their current promotion page. Nor is it cheaper than their previous special at $2.50/month for a 512MB OpenVZ VPS. Lots of comments with good discussions from previous two posts.
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CPU throttling is probably the better approach in real-world use, to be honest. Especially at the low end of the VPS spectrum. My only suggestion is that two 300MHz “cores” might be better for most people than one 700MHz slice. (A lot of the older, more established OpenVZ hosts do something similar; I have one VPS in Germany with eight 100MHz CPU slices, for example, and it generally out-performs a lot of VMs with a single 2.4GHz or 2.8GHz core.)
If nothing else, it’s encouraging to see a host who has set rational values for things like cpulimit, because it suggests they’ve actually RTFM, rather than just relying on some (completely ridiculous) UBC defaults like most other people foolishly do. (1M numproc comes immediately to mind…)
@Mike
Not every job is parallelizable. Also it highly depends on your type of load.
If you sustain a lot of http hits per second, then sure that can be farmed out to many cores.
But if your website is visited, say, once per 20-30 seconds, but each visit incurs heavy PHP scripts or DB access, then having one faster core will benefit more.
It’s exactly the same dilemma as currently with desktop CPUs. What to buy, higher-freq dualcore, or a lower-freq quad. 🙂
Core2 vs Core4 – do take a look at this (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/choosing-dual-or-quad-core.html). There are some codes that are specifically written to take advantage of multiple cores, however in virtual environment I believe it’s all about time slicing (not core slicing and not MHz slicing).
Well, everyone can argue till the cows come home, ultimately I guess you’d have to test run your case in the environment and see how it performs.
Not sure a 3 year old article is the ideal way to make a point. Back then Quads were top-end only. These days they’re pretty much de facto, or even more than 4 cores, so a lot more progs are written with multi threading in mind, where possible. A lot of games require Quad at a minimum now.
@rm: It’s not so much whether a job is parallelizable, IMO, but more a question of whether one process can easily and by default gobble up 100% of the (CPU) resources allocated to you. Nice and renice are all fine and dandy, but having multiple cores is a much more foolproof way of trying to ensure certain minimum standards of performance.
“…if your website is visited, say, once per 20-30 seconds, but each visit incurs heavy PHP scripts or DB access, then having one faster core will benefit more.” On an OpenVZ VPS, disk i/o is almost certainly going to be your bottleneck there, not the CPU. (And you’d see more benefit from more dedicated RAM to cache to than from having theoretical access to more MHz.)
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