STH Idea - Run your app infrastructure

[MiniKnight]

What if STH had a service where someone could try running their website on different types of servers? Benchmarks about Xeon D are fine enough, but if I have a SugarCRM instance that I want to try across Xeon D, E5 V3 or the new X-gene it'd be worth at least $50-100 to us to give it a try side-by-side.

 

[capn_pineapple]

Interesting idea... Perhaps worth putting it up against AWS/Azure as well?

 

[Biren78]

What's the difference between the reviews now? Is it just BYO app? If that's the case I can do rackspace, aws and azure already. I'd think that's a maybe idea.

 

[Chuckleb]

I don't think he has a lot of gear long term... so getting time on a D may be hard. Also makes it more of a hassle to keep things up and running, etc. I assume Patrick would rather low maintenance so he can spend time testing new stuff then keep things running. Though with some of the MAAS stuff, could burn and rebuild quickly.

 

[Patriot]

What's the difference between the reviews now? Is it just BYO app? If that's the case I can do rackspace, aws and azure already. I'd think that's a maybe idea.

There is such a thing as workload tracing... and replay... Turn your workload into a benchmark.

 

[capn_pineapple]

getting time on a D may be hard.

He wants the "D" *gigglesnort*

 

[Patrick]

I don't think he has a lot of gear long term... so getting time on a D may be hard.

I actually buy quite a bit, and have limited time to sell so unfortunately, I have a lot sitting in a real estate market where housing is about $800-1000/ sq ft.

I was actually going to get a rack about 20 minutes away just to get the stuff more easily remote accessible.

And tomorrow I will have 10Gbase-T D w/ 128GB RAM

 

[Chuckleb]

Oh cool. I thought you would have to keep stuff moving due to significant other... If you have a place to stash, that's another story. I don't

 

[Patrick]

Oh cool. I thought you would have to keep stuff moving due to significant other... If you have a place to stash, that's another story. I don't

I do have significant space dedicated. I want to ensure I always have one system of the last 2-3 generations of each platform available for regression testing.