I am using Digital Ocean (http://www.digitalocean.com) they give SSD storage for very low prices.
-- Ori Idan CEO Helicon Books http://www.heliconbooks.com On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > Hello, > > Eventually, I just went for another service provider. It helped me when I > realized (using ping) that the storage is on another server, with a ping of > 17 ms and a TTL of 52. That is, across some switch. Even though one could > argue that almost all virtual hosting uses remote storage, at least there's > one mount that can fail, not two. > > As for the disk speed: 5 MB/s is enough for our needs, I believe. And it > looks like this figure is a result of I/O throttling, which is quite > understandable on a ultra-cheap VPS server. Besides, the current figure > isn't much better. > > Uploading material is much slower than that. As for building the site -- > most of the slowdown until recently was because the script attempted to > fetch data from fellow sites, which have vanished long ago. So we were > actually sitting and waiting for web fetch timeouts. So much for efficiency. > > But all this doesn't matter by now. Let's hope I have better luck with the > new provider. > > Regards, > Eli > > > On 27/05/14 06:37, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > Hi Eli, > > Disk reading speed would be a concern for website visitors, and it is > not a real difference there. > Disk write speed would be inconvenient for making the site and uploading > material, mainly bad for webmasters, which makes it tolerable. > > My 2 agorot, > Orna > > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Unfortunately, I need to move haifux.org again to a new hosting provider >> soon. I've signed up to a service which offers 3 GB of SSD space + 20 GB >> "regular disk storage". It turns out that these 20 GB run through sshfs. >> >> Haifux' current site hits the 3 GB exactly, so at least some of the >> site's material will need to reside on the sshfs mount. My immediate >> reaction was to claim the money back guarantee, but is there really a >> reason for it? Does anyone here have any experience to share with sshfs >> mounts? >> >> It seems like the disk I/O is pretty slow on the sshfs mount (~ 5 MB/s), >> but should this be a real concern? I mean, when would that be an issue? >> >> And yes, this is dirt cheap hosting (~$3/month). But that's not the >> point right now. >> >> And BTW, the SSD I/O was ~400 MB/s for write and 6.5 GB/s for read. >> >> Any insights? You will all suffer if I get this wrong... ;) >> >> Thanks, >> >> Eli >> >> >> -- >> Web: http://www.billauer.co.il >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haifux mailing list >> Haifux@haifux.org >> http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux >> > > > > -- > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. > http://ladypine.org > > > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://haifux.org/mailman/listinfo/haifux > >
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