Byte64

Category: Google Cloud

  • SSTable on SSD

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    When I first put the SSTable server on Google’s Compute Engine, I opted for the cheapest machine: an e2-small (2 cores and 2GB ram) with a standard persistent disk of 20 GiB. When I ran the server, each request was taking hundreds of milliseconds. Installed iotop and found I was getting at most 8 MiB/s…

  • Cloud Engine and SSL

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    Yesterday, I spent a lot of time setting up byte64.com, particularly trying to setup HTTPS and connecting it to a Google Compute Engine Machine. I learned lots and suffered just as much. I started with a single E2 compute engine VM and had Google Cloud install a wordpress service on it. From there, I looked…