so which brand did you settle on, if I may ask? On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Andrew Snow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Daryl Manning wrote: > > Actually, even more than that, I was wondering how many people are using > > SSDs in their servers (if any) and how they've found that experience. > > We've got a scaling issue (non-Rails actually and physical rather than > > virtual hardware) and the ISP has recommended possibly using SSDs. Not > > my preferred route over a RAMDisk, but was just wondering if people > > would share experiences. > > Daryl, Octopus Computing has deployed SSDs for running customer VPS > virtual drives. Using a battery-backed ramdisk for write caching, and a > cluster of Intel SSDs for read-caching. Most sites aren't busy enough > to notice, but it has the effect of reducing worst-case latency by at > least an order of magnitude versus hard disks. > > Even the fastest spinning disk is no match for SSD. > > Disk access is easily the biggest bottle neck for hosting on shared > infrastructure and we feel this improves the situation to the point > where a VPS is faster than a dedicated server! > > Email me at [email protected] for more info. > > </plug> > > - Andrew > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- cheers, David Lee -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
