How much load Elixir (Phoenix) will take on the following dedicated server?

[kokolegorille]

I do recall a distribution example in The little elixir otp guidebook . A distributed chuck norris jokes server.

There is an excellent post about nodes clustering by @aseigo

Exploring Elixir E7: Automatic Clustering

In this week’s episode we look at the basics of how clustering Elixir nodes works, and how to automate their creation using libcluster (using UDP Gossip, but also supports Kubernetes, EC2 and DNS service discover) as well as how to replace epmd itself. An Extra episode will be available tomorrow or the next day as well covering some updates to last week’s episode, some musings on the current limitations of BEAM clustering (security, scalability), and a look at how the show’s git repo is being o…

But to me the subject lack a reference documentation (or I did not find yet).

[idi527]

I remember reading that Scaleway wasn’t particularly great in disk IO and networking https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-comparison-2017/. But things might have changed since.

[vertti]

Load testing…

Look into Tsung for example. That’s the only way to get any clue before deploying it.

[href]

By default, Scaleway disks are networked.

A direct SSD is a temporary SSD but that’s directly linked to the PCB of the server; instead of being networked.

[aseigo]

Another tool is MZBench. It takes a different approach to tsung in that it is request rather than user session oriented. It is also a bit more approachable in its web UI, and writing load tests is rather more straight-forward. It does not have all the functionality (by far!) of tsung, but if you just want simple request load testing, it’s pretty good. It also supports clustering and cloud hosting out of the box with rather simple setup.

I now use both, depending on what I am trying to measure.