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We came to the same conclusion. Oh well, never hurts to try
This one sounds more related to the OVH IP pricing changes to me. Having getting hit with a big jump in costs on an unfilled node, I'm not surprised they jumped ship. Cheap IPs and cheap SSD servers made OVH quite attractive to people looking to start a SSD VPS provider.
Don't be surprised if you hear of another one, I've got a $12/year VPSDeploy SSD VPS based at OVH that I can't see being sustainable when the IPs are going to start costing them €1/month.
SSDVM was talking about closing prior to OVH IP stuff.
Good thing we don't use adaptec
Summer just begins in the southern hemisphere. I am actually sorry that we don't see any LEB hosts there.
The IPs in Europe will be a problem larger every day. The americans dont care since they still have 3 /8 iirc at about same population so will last them many years, but EU will lead in ipv6 adoption, with the help of asia, of course
Indeed, brazilians host with us... I mean, WTF, US is closer and has cheaper IPs...
Might have to take a look at LSI again - but historically we've had better performance out of adaptec controllers as well.
Sounds familiar but I probably mistaken it at first sight as "SSHVM"
Yes that can weigh heavily on someone that leases IP's and gear. I still don't see the attraction of SSD only outside the tester circle with their minimal disk allotment. Sure they make for great SQL boxes, as long as your OS and database can fit in that small amount of disk.
Reason for VPS hoarding
The US must have better fraud detection
I do have many fine customers from Brazil, but boy that place tests my patience with fraud submisions.
Give that back old man!
Anyways, the SSD market is fun for some quick tests but when people need the space to actually work, they'll look elsewhere.
Francisco
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Fran
My mistake.
I personally like the peace of mind of knowing that I can't affect other people on a node, especially if I have a write-heavy workload.
That said, I agree in a sense - SSD cached VPSes have mainstream appeal, SSD-only VPSes are a niche thing and all bubbles eventually burst. But IMHO there'll always be people who choose the sexier SSD option even though they don't need it.
Any SSDVM customers can PM me for the second and third month free on any SSD VPS plans we offer, we have SSD VPS available in Chicago and Dallas.
Thanks
Possibly looking at purchasing it. Will update as we find more info out.
That's the route we've gone.
Any SSDVM customers can also PM me to get their 2nd month free and a recurring discount on their SSD Cache VPS plan provided they can prove they were an existing customer of SSDVM.
Can't wait to see the free ones get more free months from you guys :P
Yes that can weigh heavily on someone that leases IP's and gear. I still don't see the attraction of SSD only outside the tester circle with their minimal disk allotment. Sure they make for great SQL boxes, as long as your OS and database can fit in that small amount of disk.
I dont think SSDs will be going away so fast, spinning drives are going to hit a wall soon, it is just as much RPMS and actuator speed that can be achieved without vibrations to blow everything apart or turn the MTBF into days.
I think the price will go down further, the technology will change and will be more reliable, the bottleneck in many computers today is the storage, and SSDs are solving that somewhat.
Sure, that technology also has some limitations, but the possibilities for materials and algorithms are almost endless, while mechanical stuff has much harder limits.
I am betting SSDs will replace HDDs in a couple of years, they are already at similar prices with SAS2 ones.
HDDs will become huge sequential storage units much like tapes, but the random access devices will be SSDs.
Why no one use 512gb ssd?
Got a free VPS from them, I'm hosting my personal blog on it, time to move, again
sad to see ssdvm leave. They were very very good.
What, by itself?
Most of the provider I have seen uses 256gb drives. 512gb drives aren't that expensive now a days. On a raid 10, you get around 1tb to sell. On a e3, you can sell some decent high storage plan for good price.
They're more than twice the price of 256GBs. You're talking adding $1.2k to the cost of a node.
Well duh! But, if you want to stay competitive, you have to bite something. Either a bigger node with more client or small one with less client. Cause that 5-10gb is not worthy of 7$. In real world, people care about bigger number. The only reason 5$ 2gb vps gets sold for. Doesn't matter if anyone uses it or no, they want it.
Also ,
LEB clients barely needs ssd storage. App servers and commercial people needs em. Sites like wht and leb needs ssd, not the average Joe. And those who needs, don't and won't bother with low end provider. No matter how good ramnode or buyvm is, they will still go with rackspace or liquidweb. For a bit cheaper, they will go with linode or kh or wt. And as mine craft dies, demand for those small ssd will decline.
I don't think the competition is going to require 512GB drives any time soon.
@Taz
SSDs for a low end market is not so much to the user's advantage, but to the provider. The main problem with E5 boxes is that while you can load them up with RAM, getting enough disk IO is expensive. If you're doing a lot of VPN or low storage hosting for example, pure SSD nodes help a lot to maximize RAM use without ridiculously large (16 drive+) or expensive disk arrays (15k RPM).
Like you said, if you run an app server, you won't use a low end box. But if you can afford a dedicated server, you probably have enough margin to take one with or without SSD. At that point price difference of the SSD is negligible because you'll have a dedicated node and rarely need to go beyond 500GB of pure SSD storage.
End of the day, it's about matching the user requirements with the right product. Maybe on a marketing end it seems like a fad to you, but I can assure you, not needing to worry about disk IO abuse is one load off any low end provider's mind.