Amazon’s EC2 Micro Instance and Firebird
Few months ago I was playing with different VPS providers and I was also considering deploying the application to some “small instance” cloud. I came to Micro Instance of Amazon EC2. Part of the solution I was doing research for is Firebird database and because the pricing looks good, I tried to install Firebird (2.5 SuperClassic) on this instance.
The good news is, that it’s possible. As I did manual install, it was fast. The bad news is, that it’s really slow. If you read the description of Micro Instance you can expect it will not be blazing fast. But even for really low-load database server it’s almost unusable.
I’m not saying you can’t use it. Maybe some slow/late backup/mirror or something like that should be doable. But for normal applications using database server you’ll do better job with your own server or VPS.
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May 2nd, 2011 at 21:34
What VPS provider did you decide on?
May 2nd, 2011 at 22:26
After a R&D I found out I need to have the server in Europe (at least) to have good latency, so I removed all providers from US etc. I tested some in Germany, France and Czech Republic. Because the pricing wasn’t so different, I picked up one in Czech Rep. VSHosting (http://www.vshosting.cz/).
May 3rd, 2011 at 09:01
I agree with jiri , amazon from my experience can be quite slow and unreliable (tested with compilations and with some nodejs benchmarks)
a good vps can always be more snappy than what amazon offers
May 3rd, 2011 at 10:29
Well, I don’t know about bigger instances (or maybe the GPU instances
). But as a single DB server it’s probably not worth money, because you’re throwing away a lot of features (like ability to spin up more servers in no-time) just to have “a machine”.
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