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Any advantage to SSD for small static site on a VPS?
I have a small static site, <50 pages. Just HTML, CSS, images, and the tiniest sprinkle of JS. No PHP or dynamic content or anything.
Is there any practical advantage for website speed to choose a VPS with SSD storage rather than HDD? If you have enough RAM, doesn't Linux cache stuff in the page cache, so it'll just serve the content from RAM anyway?
I love the speed of SSDs on my own computers, but wondering if it's really worth spending more for on a static site server.
edit: I'm aware of Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, etc. for hosting static sites for free. Just wondering about VPSes.
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If the whole website content, along with HTTP and TLS servers, can fit in RAM cache, there would be no performance difference when the cache has warmed up.
You can even setup a ramdisk and copy all the content into it, to guarantee the content is served from RAM.
You can put whole site / nginx cache on ram with tempfs. Even without it I doubt you'll see difference on static site. if you would generate pages and use database then its different story.
My friend was using HDD VPS on pretty big wordpress site, year ago he upgraded and theres no difference because he was caching pages.
When i read static website, i automaticly think about S3 hosting, or GitLab / GitHub hosting. I guess with a good caching in front it should be awesome, like a free CloudFlare for example.
Anyway i don 't see SSD as a + for a static website as long your site is cached in ram.
I think Cloudflare Pages is the best. It has very high limits, has serverless functions etc. Even the default URL ***.pages.dev looks nicer.
Cloudflare Pages
20k files, 25MB file size (theoretical 500GB space, free hostsolutions alternative lol)
Unlimited transfer
Analytics, Cloudflare Workers
GitLab
10GB space
Unlimited transfer
GitHub
1GB space
100GB / mo transfer
I don't see real reason to consider GitHub Pages now - another con is that they don't allow to host any commercial sites. Only personal stuff is allowed.