Beyond Coding

Disclaimer: The post indicates my personal opinion, all references about Envato are not official.

The word cloud is getting a lot of attention lately, almost like web 2.0. Marketing gimmick aside, I believe cloud computing does offer a tremendous amount of advantages over traditional computing environment.

At Envato, we use a number of providers for our server needs. We currently have servers with Media Temple, Slicehost and Engine Yard.

Even though Envato was already using Slicehost for some of their applications, I still did my fair share of research before making a suggestion to move away from Media Temple.

I have eventually nailed down to three service providers: Slicehost, Linode and VPS.net.

For Envato, we decided to go with Slicehost, because we already have some servers there, and they offer bandwidth pooling. We would have given Linode a deeper look if they had offered backups (their backups system is still in beta).

Having said that, I was very very impressed by VPS.net, so I decided I should sign up anyway, for my personal projects.

Let’s compare the three services: Slicehost, VPS.net and Media Temple.

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Jack Wallen from TechRepublic has posted an article titled “10 reasons why Linux will triumph over Windows“. The article has attracted many readers and comments, so, here’s my question: why should Linux triumph Windows?

Let’s start by taking Jack’s points one by one.

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Ah I wish I had enough time to play with it. Perhaps when my VPS providers upgrade their offerings I’ll give it a try. ;)

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So I had a play with LiteSpeed just recently. Let’s have a look at what the benchmark says.

Tool used: ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev < $Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0

Benchmark object: My WordPress blog (homepage), of course I made an exact copy of the current blog you’re seeing to my VPS box (which has both Apache and LiteSpeed installed).

Both Apache and LiteSpeed use default configuration parameters. Since the benchmark was done on the same server, hardware is the same, however there are some software differences.

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