[Haifux] sshfs in OpenVZ hosting?

[Ori Idan]

I am using Digital Ocean (http://www.digitalocean.com) they give SSD
storage for very low prices.


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On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Eli Billauer <eli at 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 <eli at 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
>>
>>
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