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512 MB Digital Ocean VPS Droplet: Towards Using A Large Swapfile on SSD to Mask the Lack of RAM

Posted on February 4, 2013 by ahcox in Hosting

I just ran ioping on my Digital Ocean 512MB / 20GB VPS which supposedly has an SSD. The SSD was quite exciting to have in the droplet before these tests: although it only has 512MB of RAM, I was hoping to allocate a large swap and have the SSD save the day. At first sight […]

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Digital Ocean VPS Droplet Benchmarking

Posted on December 20, 2012 by ahcox in Hosting

I just got myself one of their 256MB “droplets” and started it up running 64bit Ubuntu 12.10. Here is the sysbench CPU result for that: [email protected]:/tmp/bench# sysbench –test=cpu run sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark Running the test with following options: Number of threads: 1 Doing CPU performance benchmark Threads started! Done. Maximum prime number […]