ASK HN: What cpus are used in IBM bluemix?

2 pointsIllniyar2 comments

Everywhere I look IBM bluemix talks only about memory , you are charged by memory etc..., but it never says what kind of cpu (or vCpu) you are getting.

Does anyone know how fast are bluemix instances (I.E. the cpu's frequency), are there any guarantees about performance?

It's mind boggling to me that a vendor offering cloud computing services doesn't clearly mark what cpu you'll get.

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IBM Bluemix public PaaS is just a customized CloudFoundry which runs on IBM SoftLayer IaaS. One can also run Bluemix on his own servers, but I guess it's expensive.

You can check available instance types on SoftLayer website.

Even better solution: try to run something like `cat /proc/cpuinfo` in your code.

That's how PaaS works. AFAIK Heroku and App Engine also don't specify much if anything about CPU.

Bluemix IaaS specifies what CPU you get similar to EC2.

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