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you'd have to be priced really aggressively since those machines are super low power. add an SSD as an additional differentiator - i can't think of a VPS servic
by tlack 16y ago
you'd have to be priced really aggressively since those machines are super low power. add an SSD as an additional differentiator - i can't think of a VPS service doing that, and it would really boost performance.
- lzw 16y agoI don't have a sense for the compute power difference between a 1GHZ ARM and 1/64th of a Quad Core Xeon or whatever a VPS represents. But I also am continually surprised that SSDs are still independent devices. I'd expect at least Apple to have integrated one on the mother board by now. This idea is predicated also, in part, on the assumption that there's some software that will allow part of the SSD to work as a cache for the networked hard drive.
- RobGR 16y agoLinux and other modern operating systems automatically cache network drives or can be configured to do so. Probably the best way to address that would be to increase the amount of RAM in each device, so more (or the entire disk) could be cached.