should i upgrade to an ssd on my server?

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im technologically retarded more or less. i read ssd are good for database heavy shit. shit like tracking programs? you know shit like p202, running mysql etc etc.

i also read it wont really make a difference if youre running static sites like uhh landers for shady "casino" programs.... but about those mysql databases....

is it worth upgrading to an ssd for my server?

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tl:dr: my shit consists of two things

-tracking programs (think p202, cpvlab etc)
-static html/css landers
 


well, you didnt say how busy your site(s) are or what the spec of your server is.

If your site is serving less than 1 request a second and has more ram than your DB size, then an SSD probably wont help you.

When testing your site, is it slow? response time?
 
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AdamC said:
well, you didnt say how busy your site(s) are or what the spec of your server is.

If your site is serving less than 1 request a second and has more ram than your DB size, then an SSD probably wont help you.

When testing your site, is it slow? response time?
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nah it aint slow, renewal time just came up and ssd seem to be all the rage these days.

i decided on just keeping with the same ol' atleast for now.
 
dmnEPC said:
Are you scoring 90+ on pagespeed? get your onsite problems solved first (great post by Ccarter), and then worry about the ssd
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i use the pingdom page speed test and generally somewhere within the 90th percentile, i assume it uses similar metrics to the google one but ima run a bunch of tests on it anyway haha. gonna read over ccarters post too, thanks.

anyways i went with just a standard hd, i think i made the right choice, no point in spending more money if i dont have to.
 
thats like asking should i upgrade from a bong to a volcano.

they'll both get u high but one is better
 
stick2Herbs said:
i use the pingdom page speed test and generally somewhere within the 90th percentile, i assume it uses similar metrics to the google one but ima run a bunch of tests on it anyway haha. gonna read over ccarters post too, thanks.

anyways i went with just a standard hd, i think i made the right choice, no point in spending more money if i dont have to.
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Just keep an eye out on your logs, and traffic. You will know when it's time to upgrade.
 
Without knowing current utilization data with mysql, disk i/o, network traffic, and apache requests, adding SSD is an unknown. For example, let's say your on some piece of shit shared hosting plan from godaddy who's hosting 1500+ domains on a single server, SSD isn't going to solve everything because of excessive network i/o congestion and cpu usage. VPS or dedicated you can get Munin running and gather some stats to make a better decision. Mysql is pretty fast, just needs to be tuned correctly, add caching where needed.
 
going from bare metal disks to SSD is a move that you make only once. last year I went through and setup a new SSD based environment for all new VPS and shared services. It is something that at this stage I do no regret. I have seen significant performace increases and moving a reasonable amount of data each day. I have vps's moving around 10-15GB of data a day. Some more, some less than that and most of the customers noticed the change.

The ones that have left in that time (5-10) have all come back bar a couple (who went belly up anyway) because their site load times plumited from 3-4 seconds to 40-50 seconds. You just have to make sure that if you go SSD that you are going to a box that doesn't have 2000 other vm's on it or if you are going to a dedicated box that you get ones running SSD drives that do 100,000 IOPS.
 
adam is right though. there are a lot of factors that need to be taken in to consideration. our issue with speed was bare metal drives. We were in a DC where network traffic is not a huge issue and had a decent uplink. in the shared environments we were replacing drives every 18 months because of thrashing and there was not a huge amount of sites on each box.
 
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