Stop Skimping, use Quantum Hosting®!One customer running a single WordPress was using a 4x vCPUs instance on Amazon AWS®. But the CPU and load usage were so high, with no apparent reasons (the number of visitors was reasonable). However: each 404 triggered a huge CPU and bandwidth consumption! A test was conducted and the 404 was replaced by a… read more »
In a must-read article by David Heinemeier Hansson, the founder of Basecamp explains: Why they’re leaving the cloud. Quantum Hosting® has been very vocal about the so-called “promise of simplification” while Amazon AWS® is blocking the port 25 for any new customer… Not having the simple ability to send emails from your own EC2 instance… read more »
This is the CPU monitoring usage on an EC2 instance in Ireland (t3a.xlarge). Two things to notice:-the left graph has an average of 40% of white background (it does not reach the full 400% CPU height)-the left graph has a maximum of 46% CPU steal (which is the red part, and it should not be… read more »