We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. at Mixpanel Engineering
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010Notes about reasons why Mixpanel moves out of Rackspace cloud to EC2
Archive for the 'aws' Category
Atmail KB: Setting Up SMTP outbound to another port via IPTABLES DNAT
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010if you are on EC2 hosting, redirect all your smpt traffic via SUBMISSION port
Monitoring Cloud Computing Performance with PRTG: CPU, Disk, Memory Speed Comparison of Amazon EC2 Instance Types – From The CEO’s Blog
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Confirms what was noted elsewhere: EC2 small instance is not worth the money, it performs several times slower than medium or large instances
Rackspace Cloud Servers versus Amazon EC2: Performance Analysis
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Testing amazon and rackspace instances: kernel compile time and “how much it costs to compile kernel on $instance”, and IO tests using IOzone — in short: rackspace is cheaper/better, about 2x on average across the board. Note about “m1.small” i.e. s…
Exploring Amazon EC2 for Scale-out Applications
Saturday, April 19th, 2008very interesting post from people who have done benchmarking and testing amazon EC2 platform