Do forums benefit much with SSD on a dedicated server?

jonsidneyb said:
It is faster over here on this forum. I was going to try and get it as fast as XenForo's forum.
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Well...your site is completely down right now (whoops), but it was just as fast as this forum when I was there earlier. Not sure why you don't think it's as fast. Remember, load time is affected by WAY more than just the disk speed. Location of the server has a lot more to do with it than anything else.
 
Luke Foreman said:
Nothing wrong with putting /tmp in ram
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Well when you put your worlds in a minecraft server on a ramdisk, and your server crashes you're boned if you don't have backups. Even then you still have a load of pissed off players because you have to roll back 2 hours to the last backup. Downtime kills you too.
Clickfinity said:
I'm not too worried - we've got a second SSD that is rsync'd every four hours, a third (regular HDD) that is sync'd overnight, and a weekly S3 backup in case anything really terminal happens to the box.
It stretches my budget but it also gives us the fastest cycling forum in the UK and room for plenty of growth. (y)
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That's always good :X
 
jonsidneyb said:
Feels like it lags a bit to me. Search is a little slow too so thinking about enhanced search.
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Well running a million post index off mysql won't be ideal, an ssd may help there for sure,

But yea, get ES set up, that will speed up your search for sure.
 
Yeah, my first dedicated server was with The Planet back in 2007/2008. Was bloody expensive for what is was. 2.4ghz Pentium 4 processor, 512mb RAM, and a 80gb Hard drive.
 
I just was reading about ssd-cashed VPS , Are they good for xenforo
and what is the different between normal SSD adn Cashed SSD
 
SSD caching puts a SSD drive in front of a mechanical drive, or mechanical drive array, and caches the frequently accessed stuff. Most providers I know have not seen much improvement using SSD caching in a production environment.

Normal SSD setups are going to be very fast. SSD cached setups can't come anywhere close to them (for obvious reasons...you still have mechanical drives involved).

The fact of the matter is that most people do not need SSD setups, and really will not benefit greatly from it. Unless disk i/o is the bottleneck for your server/VPS, you're likely not going to notice huge improvements when switching to SSDs. Now if you're constantly maxing out your drives, and are seeing a lot of wait time for disk access, you will GREATLY benefit from a SSD setup.
 
WSWD said:
SSD caching puts a SSD drive in front of a mechanical drive, or mechanical drive array, and caches the frequently accessed stuff. Most providers I know have not seen much improvement using SSD caching in a production environment.

Normal SSD setups are going to be very fast. SSD cached setups can't come anywhere close to them (for obvious reasons...you still have mechanical drives involved).

The fact of the matter is that most people do not need SSD setups, and really will not benefit greatly from it. Unless disk i/o is the bottleneck for your server/VPS, you're likely not going to notice huge improvements when switching to SSDs. Now if you're constantly maxing out your drives, and are seeing a lot of wait time for disk access, you will GREATLY benefit from a SSD setup.
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My SQL usage went down 30% by moving to SSD drive (1.5GB SQL). In addition, my cache rebuilds much faster when installing add-ons/making modifications to my website(s) + I will let you see by yourself what Google thinks about SSD drives:
http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/779/p94m.png

I was playing with SSD hosts long time ago before making the actual move, thinking it's a hype - but it's not.
The small bump down before the drastic one is 15K drives in RAID10. The SSD costs me much more, but it's worth it.
 
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