<div dir="ltr">I am using Digital Ocean (<a href="http://www.digitalocean.com">http://www.digitalocean.com</a>) they give SSD storage for very low prices.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Eli Billauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@billauer.co.il" target="_blank">eli@billauer.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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But all this doesn't matter by now. Let's hope I have better luck with
the new provider.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Eli<div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 27/05/14 06:37, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote:
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<div>Disk reading speed would be a concern for website visitors, and
it is not a real difference there.
<div>Disk write speed would be inconvenient for making the site and
uploading material, mainly bad for webmasters, which makes it tolerable.</div>
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<div>My 2 agorot,</div>
<div>Orna</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Eli
Billauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli@billauer.co.il" target="_blank">eli@billauer.co.il</a>></span>
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all,<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, I need to move <a href="http://haifux.org" target="_blank">haifux.org</a> again to a new
hosting provider<br>
soon. I've signed up to a service which offers 3 GB of SSD space + 20 GB<br>
"regular disk storage". It turns out that these 20 GB run through sshfs.<br>
<br>
Haifux' current site hits the 3 GB exactly, so at least some of the<br>
site's material will need to reside on the sshfs mount. My immediate<br>
reaction was to claim the money back guarantee, but is there really a<br>
reason for it? Does anyone here have any experience to share with sshfs<br>
mounts?<br>
<br>
It seems like the disk I/O is pretty slow on the sshfs mount (~ 5 MB/s),<br>
but should this be a real concern? I mean, when would that be an issue?<br>
<br>
And yes, this is dirt cheap hosting (~$3/month). But that's not the<br>
point right now.<br>
<br>
And BTW, the SSD I/O was ~400 MB/s for write and 6.5 GB/s for read.<br>
<br>
Any insights? You will all suffer if I get this wrong... ;)<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Eli<br>
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