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SSD or Larger Disk

johnjohn Member
edited June 2012 in General

I'm doing some market research.

Do you prefer a SSD based VPS or a larger disk capacity with decent performance?

What do you think a good ratio between RAM and SSD space is? For example, do you think 4GB disk per 256MB RAM is reasonable and usable?

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  • TaylorTaylor Member

    I like the idea of some ssd space plus some normal storage.

  • jarjar Member, Patron Provider

    Sounds like you're talking about ramnode ;)

    I prefer some ssd and some additional storage on an acceptable raid setup. Truthfully it depends on the job.

  • yomeroyomero Member

    Obviously it depends of how do you will use the VPS.

    For my uses I can squeeze my stuff even to < 2gb with the OS included.

  • Nick_ANick_A Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    @jarland said: Sounds like you're talking about ramnode ;)

    Indeed!

    @jarland said: I prefer some ssd and some additional storage on an acceptable raid setup. Truthfully it depends on the job.

    We're actually looking into offering something like that as well.

  • johnjohn Member

    @jarland said: Sounds like you're talking about ramnode ;)

    Honestly, before I made this thread, I hadn't heard about RamNode before.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Member

    I think 2-4 GB SSD and 10 or so regular as /home or something, should be best, but that is a one-size fits all that will probably not be a good idea as ppl in the market usually know what they want and how will they use the VPS.
    I would go with regular storage if no swap, or regular storage and swap on SSD should suffice for most usage scenarios.
    M

  • jarjar Member, Patron Provider
    edited June 2012

    @Maounique Question is, can such a thing be done on OpenVZ? Additional as /home that is.

  • MaouniqueMaounique Member
    edited June 2012

    Hum, TBH I dont know, but I don't think the cp is so bad that can't allow a different device be used for swap. Even if it doesn't, can always mount some place or something... I never used vswap in my setups, dont think I will ever use it, if there is a need I can buy more ram or use Xen.
    M

  • prometeusprometeus Member, Host Rep

    @jarland said: Question is, can such a thing be done on OpenVZ

    I don't know if you can do some tricks to bind different mount points inside a private/root (never looked at this) vps but solusvm don't support it nor do proxmox (which allow containers to be placed into different directory)...

  • jarjar Member, Patron Provider
    edited June 2012

    Would be quite an accomplishment to see it done on the host node in such a way that everything but one mount point (like /home, possibly in variable form for the user's preference) was on a separate storage device. Obviously not an issue for KVM, but could result in some crazy openvz plans ;)

  • MaouniqueMaounique Member
    edited June 2012

    Even tho I never did it, in theory, i dont see why would be impossible. And I think cps could automate this at ppl's request or someone will write a module.
    M
    Edit: another thing on the TODO list for me :P My homelab was deserted last 2 weeks.

  • jcalebjcaleb Member

    @john what if you offer different package. have a package for ssd, have another package on another node with regular disk but larger space.

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