What are compute cycles?
Compute cycles measure how much processing time your applications require on the inetsmart cloud. Using 10,000 compute cycles in a month is roughly equivalent to running a server with a 2.8 GHz modern processor for the same period of time. How many compute cycles will my applications use? Since web applications vary so greatly, it’s hard to make a perfect guess. However, there are some guidelines that can help. First, you can think of 10,000 compute cycles as being about the same processing power as you’d get from a decent dedicated server or Amazon EC2 instance. For example 10,000 compute cycles would power: about 2.1 million page views using a database-driven content management system about 11 million page views of inetsmart.net about 25 million requests for a static 15KB image What goes in to calculating a compute cycle? Mostly, CPU processing time. However, compute cycles also account for the disk I/O your application’s operations consume. For example, a page with heavy database qu
