Digital Ocean "High CPU" droplets

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

Digital Ocean is rolling out new droplets (not yet available to everyone).

@An email I just received

Because you have expressed interest in higher performing Droplets, we’re happy to introduce our upcoming High-CPU Droplet plans. CPU-Intensive Plans are backed by a more powerful, compute-optimized CPU; currently the Intel 2697Av4 with a clock speed of 2.60GHz. In the future, we’ll be offering more powerful CPUs. Below is a look at these plans:

I did a rebuild on a $40/month droplet that completed in 5m10.854s (including Let’s Encrypt).

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

This is the CPU

Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 (45M Cache, 2.30 GHz) Product Specifications

Depends how much CPU load there is, if it can turbo up to max it will be fast I guess? Timing Discourse rebuild is a very good proxy for testing CPU speed.

I wish they offered Skylake like Google does…

Google Cloud Platform is the first cloud provider to offer Intel Skylake |...

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I just tried to resize my droplet to high CPU and the option was absent hopefully this is properly rolled out soon.

Did not even have to option to create a new high CPU droplet in our account.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Honestly your best bet is Google Cloud if you can get Skylake. Or be like me and get those kaby lake i7 mini pcs to colocate!

How much is Discourse affected by a faster CPU?

Some command line rebuild numbers: cd /var/discourse git pull ./launcher rebuild app I did this in two consoles, triggered by pressing enter at the exact same time on the last command. I stopped the clock when the command line prompt returned from the rebuild. Digital Ocean droplet (different droplet, but I verified same E5-2630L CPU as in first post, 2GB $20/month droplet) 37:45 → 46:51 = 9 minutes, 6 seconds (546 seconds) Ali Express box 37:45 → 41:38 = 3 minutes, 53 seconds (233 seconds) …

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

If I’d stop reading here and get to programming my Discourse Installer I would make a next step to have it install on Google cloud as well as DO. I’ve got gobs of referral credits on Digital Ocean, so it’s pretty hard for anyone to compete with what I’m paying.