Simon Krenger

In the last weeks, I have been considering to replace my HostEurope vServer (Linux L 4.0) with an Amazon EC2 Micro Instance. I already did some testing in another post and then stumbled upon a post mentioning CPU stealing. So I did some testing myself…

While discussing the topic of cloud computing today, my co-worker mentioned the Amazon EC2 service and gave me a quick presentation of the features that are available. Since I am a big fan of virtualisation and the idea of scalable architectures, I immediately thought “This could be great to test some things out and is a wonderful opportunity to play around with different virtual machines”. So I signed up and did some quick tests to look at the IO performance…

I was especially interested in using these machines for storage and maybe some tests with databases. For these tests, my current Virtual Server serves as a reference, simply because EC2 could provide an alternative to that Virtual Server. In my tests, I included the following configurations:

Well, you’ve got to go with the time. krenger.ch is now reachable through IPv6 thanks to the IPv6 support of HostEurope:

simon@atlas:~$ ping6 www.krenger.ch
PING www.krenger.ch(2a01:488:66:1000:53a9:2967:0:1) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 2a01:488:66:1000:53a9:2967:0:1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.022 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:488:66:1000:53a9:2967:0:1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.035 ms
64 bytes from 2a01:488:66:1000:53a9:2967:0:1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.042 ms