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Debian GNU/Linux 8 (Jessie; PVM for previous generation instance types)

Debian | 8.1

Linux/Unix, Debian 8.1 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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72 AWS reviews

    Joe Lucas

Speed and performance with 1000 Simultaneous connections

  • September 20, 2014
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After being asked by a client running his site on the Joomla CMS to up the performance of his current set up I decided to build an AWS instance.

Debian/Ubuntu is my poison so on to the meat :)

Debian Wheezy seems solid without any foibles that I could find.

I wanted to go with an SSD based setup in order to satisfy mysql's thirst for iops and chose to also run the test vps with 16GB+ of ram.

First things first, my client wanted to go with Nginx although I am at the moment a cherokee man through and through :)

Thank you Alvaro Lopez Ortega....

If you do not mind conf files and nano like me this is less painful then you can imagine. So onward with apt-get and in goes Nginx without any drama or any issue's popping up!

I am REALLY used to putting stuff in /var/www so having to work with /usr/share/nginx/www is kind of new. Saying that you can always change the web servers global root or even on a site by site basis via their individual conf files in sites-enabled.

PHP5-fpm + APC, you would think so would you not? On this occasion though I wanted to try out Zends built in opcache which is only available from 5.5 and as such had to do a manual install from source due to wheezy not yet having it available for install with apt-get.

Ahhhhh, MariaDB....

Stuff the official mysqlDB let me give MariaDB a shot at holding Joomla's data! In it went and then out it came :(

MASSIVE cpu usage when under load out of the box and also after tuning the config it was still eating cpu cycles like no mans business! So what to do? PerconaDB to the rescue!

PerconaDB does not even break a sweat :)

A focused PerconaDB admin could probably explain in greater detail the why's and how's of Percona's V8 as opposed to MariaDB's lawnmower engine... I am not saying that MariaDB cannot perform at the same levels as PerconaDB, what I am simply stating is that PerconaDB out of the box out performs MariaDB while consuming hardly any cpu time and I found Percona's my.conf generator easy to use which probably also contributed to it's solid performance out of the starting gate.

Now that you have read all of the above I can tell you with hand on heart that 1000 simultaneous connections pulling a 4MB Joomla page where hitting a sub 2000ms response/load time which the mainstream would be more then happy with.

Fortunately or unfortunately, I do not fit into that category so how do you squeeze blood out of a stone? You configure Nginx to microcache! Suddenly what was approaching 2000ms gets smashed down to sub 200ms and I take another swig of my Caipirinha as I wipe away the beads of sweat that have just started running down my forehead. I know it is 2am but can this really be happening? how the hell is this possible?

Nginx microcaching negates the need for any performance tweaking of anything behind it....

What a performance, I decided to really push Nginx and went for a 4000 connection load test which resulted in 2000ms load times and 50% 8 core usage all the way through.

Surprisingly another benefit of Nginx's micro caching is it's very low ram usage which never really went above 1GB. So your vps/server does not run with an SSD? no problem, just load Nginx micro cache into ram and your iops will go through the bloody roof!!!

As a final note on this quick review, I would say that cpu power and available ram supersedes the requirement for solid state storage until of course HP gets their arse into gear and starts releasing their "machine".

Peace and love to all.


    GREG

As usual the best

  • August 15, 2014
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High quality OS ! Stability Security and lot of deb ! the installation was very quick ! Thank you for developper and amazon for free instance !


    Josef Straßl

Best Operating System out there

  • June 29, 2014
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Debian is still the best OS out there. Both flexible and fast. I dont understand, why it isnt under the default Images.


    brian

I love it

  • June 11, 2014
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Easy to use configure and deploy been using Debian since high school. Never gonna switch!
Xoxoxo ian Debian users will get this


    Javier Arturo Rodriguez

Debian+AWS=AWESOME

  • May 08, 2014
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Provisioning an EC2 instance with this AMI allows us to bring all our packages, automation scripts, recipes and expertise to AWS in a stable, secure and well-supported platform - there's no need to juggle RPMs anymore.


    Alessandro Bramato

A very good product

  • May 03, 2014
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This Debian server is a very important test area for me. Thanks a lot to Amazon for this free opportunity. The configuration of istance is very simply and fast if you have a skill in IT scienze. I test virtual machine for a virtual pbx and a web server for word press. Firewall is easy to configure and change are applayed in real time. Congratulation for your cloud infrascture Amazon team.


    Indra Bayu

VPS

  • April 09, 2014
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I just create the VPS for my experience. I will study with this VPS. Create 1, but for thousand people


    NOESI.gr

Scary billing

  • April 04, 2014
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Could not set up the site to work properly before we ate up all free tier allowance in a day or two. Stuck now with expensive hosting plans before we could sort out which one is the right one for us.


    Hironobu SUZUKI

I'm familiar with Debian GNU/Linux.

  • April 01, 2014
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I've been a user of GNU/Linux for long time. Debian GNU/Linux is a kind of liberal OS/Distribution for computer science or computer technology skill.


    Lionel Kuhlmann

Perfect and flexible virtual processing

  • April 01, 2014
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Once I was setup to choose the linux and windows type I wanted, it is incredible easy to startup and test a mulitude of configuration.
One missing point though is the farce to use RD for windows+GPU setup - this is not useful