Tag: cloud

2018/11/302019/04/13 by xpk

The new AMD-based instance types are made available in Nov 2018. It’s damn impressive. Here is a quick benchmark using openssl. The first is from EPYC, second from ARM, third from Intel.

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2015/09/182016/08/24 by xpk

Resize root disk on Azure VM

Azure hard-codes disk size and it cannot be changed during deployment. Resizing root disk on Azure is often a required task. Here is how a root disk can be resized. I learned this the hard way.

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2015/04/292015/06/21 by xpk

Why not Azure

I recently attended a 4-day training on Microsoft’s cloud platform. Quickly I learned why it should not be used if you’re serious about your business.

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2015/03/162015/06/21 by xpk

DigitalOcean: First Impression

My venture with VULTR ended prematurely, time to move onto a more popular platform – Digital Ocean. It’s one of the first to offer an all-ssd cloud offering. Its ability to provide HTML5-based machine consoles is very interesting. For what I know, this feature does not exist on more advanced platforms like AWS / Azure.

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2015/03/162020/02/19 by xpk

VULTR: First impression

I’s in search for a cheaper cloud service and VULTR is definitely one of them. My first impression isn’t so great as it took more than 20min to provision a CentOS 7 instance. I’m starting to doubt if the instance will ever come up, or they have really really slow SSD, or their provisioning module…

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2015/01/222015/06/22 by xpk

cloud cloud cloud.

So I’ve decided to give Microsoft Azure a try. Coming from AWS, it really is difficult to expect another cloud that can be comparative. I’m just going to say that up front.

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2014/04/182014/04/18 by xpk

This is cloud…

Just don’t expect it to be as stable as traditional server hosting or VPS.

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