We're currently running our application on Heroku and are seeing the limitations of its platform (mainly due to the cost of scaling).
We're looking to run our own setup on something like Amazon. There are a few competitors out there in the Cloud that offer pure SSD storage etc. that look attractive.
I wanted to basically find a standard test that I could run to spec out the performance of each of these platforms running a comparable instance.
In no way am I a performance expert so I'm not 100% sure what I'm looking for, I just wanted to see some side-by-sides to make sure we make an informed decision.
Can anyone suggest a test suite (or a few) that might give us a relative benchmark for things like disk, memory, cpu performance etc...?