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How many of you really need a Pure SSD VPS?
Hello,
Our company was doing some research regarding SSD servers and wanted to find out how many of you really need a pure SSD servers. If you do need it please explain to me what are your purpose with it. I already had a survey done in WHT, now its LET turn I suppose.
Thanks
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I've only ever used an SSD VPS once but shell felt really responsive. Also, you can thrash the disk more without other customers complaining/you getting suspended.
I need it for benchmarking.
Interesting so have you ever used SSD for your website?
I don't have a website.
Could you explain this further for me, what kind of benchmarking?
dd
I need SSDs to add to my DD test result arsenal. They come in handy in my VPS vs your VPS arguments.
This. Love me some dd.
Anyone uses SSD for their website?
I need it to increase my DD porn
This is what happens when you go to WHT first, LET can't take you seriously :-/
There was a thread about this not long ago if you search.
I'd probably use it solely for MySQL or something transactional. While not crucial, speed is always better.
SSD = LET members sign up, run a DD test, post their results on LET and then let the box idle. Easy money
OOPS my mistake
I tend only to use SSD because that is what the providers I use provide. Do I need it? For a couple of heavy MySQL sites yes for most others, no.
Thanks for the feedback.
Higher I/O like 1,1GB is like i have a bigger ****, just compare and must have.
But if you use it, is a other point when i hear people like "i have 4 vps's in NL and i need a new one or should i better use my idle vps's in NL?"
Yes, I'm using SSD KVM VPS to host our website. It's a daily news site (powered by wordpress). Its database is quite big and the PHP code need much db calculation. My site run a little bit slow on HDD and consumed high CPU. When I move it to SDD it run fast.
Databases usually benefit from an SSD although not so much at the volume I use them. I guess the better question is why not offer it or what better can you offer for the price? With Digital Ocean, a pretty reputable provider, I can get 20GB pure SSD disk space for $5/m... that's a pretty good deal for a "just incase" and perceived snappiness. That said, I wouldn't necessarily object to $10/m on a HDD (as long as it was reasonable in terms of how the I/O is shared on the node) but you'd have to offer more space, automated backups for free etc
SSD is just the current market trend. Is it necessary? It depends on your data requirements. Do you need to improve your database reads/writes/queries? if Yes, then, yes, SSD will help you improve those speeds. Its all about your applications workload. You shouldn't cater your VPS Requirements to what you 'think' you should have. You should cater your VPS requirements to what your application or 'use-case' will require to reach a level of performance you want.
Everyone needs SSD.
90% people who use SSD or SSD cached do not need SSD or SSD cached, they just fall into marketing tactics of hosts especially the DD tests.
Outside LET, the vast majority of mature users still prefer SATA over SSD or SAS.
SSD aren't always a win though; Before Samsung's Pro series, I thought the only drives worth buying were eMLC/MLC or Crucial's M* series. As an early adapter, I had 3 SF1 drives fail within a year. SF2 wasn't much better until FW updates, and I had the same experience with Crucial drives at first.
New Intel and Samsung drives have changed the market; Low-cost hybrid NAND means it may actually be fair to call SSDs more reliable than HDDs now.
I have my own website, and have a CVPS plan with RAMNode, I definitely feel the difference in speed, because hard drives aren't bogged down constantly by writes, and are cached. It also gives me a bonus with storage, which is a plus.
Many of my customers prefer servers with SSD. It works perfect, but on website there are only a ~20 ms difference. SSD cached servers are my love.
Sounds like you need to optimize your code and indexes
DD results aside... With the way SSDs are going down in price and up in quality, I can see them being a standard component in VM nodes soon. If you're already buying hardware RAID cards, you may as well leverage something like CacheCade.
People prefer something because they hear someone saying "o ya that is the best". Very few people have the tech skills to know if this is really true or not.
Now your a mod can we hold a LET-BenchOff?