This blog is a space for my thoughts, ideas, concept development, observed oddities exploration but mainly for much needed RANTING space from a frustrated penguin against the powers that be. Long live the yellow beak!
IAAS CPU bursts – Can it be bad?
Rackspace, in its cloud servers service, generously gives hosted machines unallocated CPU cycles, above the guaranteed levels (reference). In a study I’m conducting these days, comparing performance of the biggest IAAS providers, this innocent feature revealed itself very clearly. Comparing the smallest instances of both EC2 and Rackspace CPU benchmarks, and normalizing to benchmark points [...]
