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0 pointstyingq3y ago0 comments

To be fair, though, the lightsail instances that are subject to oppressive throttling aren't really a good comparison. Those should be dirt cheap, as they are useless if you use them in almost any real fashion.

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nerdjon3y ago

I had some personal projects a while ago that I used to run on Linode, I later moved them to LightSail and I never noticed any performance difference in these projects running there.

These were Ruby on Rails projects.

tyingqOP3y ago

It depends on the instance. If you use up the burst capacity, you will notice. The very bottom end only allows about 5% usage before the throttling kicks in. There's a chart here:

https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amaz...

nerdjon3y ago

Hmm, interesting. I unfortunately don't have the metrics anymore since this project is long dead.

But I do remember on another host (I tried a different one between linode and light sail) that I actually got an email that I was using too much CPU and was shut down.

So I do remember using a lot of CPU, but I don't know where that percent was.

rom-antics3y ago

Lightsail are among the worst when it comes to actual benchmarks. Though you might not notice if your apps aren't very resource demanding.

Their fastest instance type is still in the bottom ~15% of this list for example: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/screener

napsterbr3y ago

Doesn't LightSail rely on t-family (burstable) instances? If so, that's probably because your projects' regular sustained usage do not go above the minimum threshold (which is fairly low).

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nerdjon3y ago

I had some personal projects a while ago that I used to run on Linode, I later moved them to LightSail and I never noticed any performance difference in these projects running there.

These were Ruby on Rails projects.

tyingqOP3y ago

It depends on the instance. If you use up the burst capacity, you will notice. The very bottom end only allows about 5% usage before the throttling kicks in. There's a chart here:

https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amaz...

nerdjon3y ago

Hmm, interesting. I unfortunately don't have the metrics anymore since this project is long dead.

But I do remember on another host (I tried a different one between linode and light sail) that I actually got an email that I was using too much CPU and was shut down.

So I do remember using a lot of CPU, but I don't know where that percent was.

rom-antics3y ago

Lightsail are among the worst when it comes to actual benchmarks. Though you might not notice if your apps aren't very resource demanding.

Their fastest instance type is still in the bottom ~15% of this list for example: https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/screener

napsterbr3y ago

Doesn't LightSail rely on t-family (burstable) instances? If so, that's probably because your projects' regular sustained usage do not go above the minimum threshold (which is fairly low).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse