joedicastro

More than two months in my spare time. To collect the "static" information, and create the Ansible roles and python scripts to collect the "dynamic" info (the results from the benchmarks) and finally compose the final document.

I lost a lot of time waiting for the benchmark tests to finish ;-)

I suppose that is the same with another tools and providers. The community size and the work that the providers put on this makes a big difference IMHO. Another reason to share this in the comparison. Thanks!

Good to know, I suppose that I would need to change that phrase to be more accurate. Thanks for sharing it.

Linode seems to be working in a new version of their control panel, I hope that they do a great work, because for too much people the current one is a entry barrier, even when they do a very good work.

For me too, I think that is general, I hope.

Thanks!

Yeah, I agree, that would be nice, but as I automate the creation of those tables and cut/paste them every time that I run a set of new tests, to do that would require a lot of manual job to me. That's the reason why I don't do that, to keep it manageable.

I was not referring here about the "activity" per se, I was talking about quotas and percentages of use. No matter for what kind of activity you are going to use the service, I would like to have clear from the beginning what limits of use I have.

Another thing completely different is the permissibility about certain illegal activities or loopholes in their servers. That's not my concern, that's only a question of moral/ethics/legal between the client, the provider and the authorities.

Thanks!

And thank you very much to share your experience with us. I think that the same provider can offer you a very different experience in different regions. Even AWS is not immune to that, they had datacenters with some major outages in some US regions while in another countries almost none big problems.

Thanks for the offer. I'll take into account.

Thanks! I would take into account.

You're welcome! Thanks!

Thanks! Very kind of you!

Well, I would like to include more, in fact I would include Ligthsail for sure if they offered a datacenter in Europe. But to start something like this you have to start small, or the costs will bury you pretty son. As a pet and personal project, the way to limit the cost was setting a clear seat of boundaries, like plans under $5 and available in Europe. And being one-man band to make this affordable in terms of time and effort I had to keep it small at the beginning. I worked on this in my spare time for more than two months. If I find a way to sustain the costs, or the providers itself offer me a way to test their machines, I have no problem to expand the comparison. But in the meantime, I share the tools because I knew from the beginning that I only have limited resources. And after all, reproducibility, independence and transparency are the keys IMHO to have a trustful comparison.

That's a good idea, I suppose that would have to do the same with another tools like Apache libcloud or Ansible itself.

I'll add this suggestion as an issue to the project. Thanks!

Thanks! I'm glad that is helpful to you.

I put you here the same reply that I gave to another user, because the answer is essentially the same. Anyway, thanks for you feedback.

I understand you, but as I said in another comments, I would like to expand the comparison, but in the end is a question of time and costs. If I find a way to sustain the costs, or the providers itself offer me a way to test their machines, I have no problem to expand the comparison. But in the meantime, I share the tools because I knew from the beginning that I only have limited resources. And after all, reproducibility, independence and transparency are the keys IMHO to have a trustful comparison.