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I think the introduction of the SSD is causing site owners to "leave the cloud". I haven't seen any cloud hosting that lets you choose SSD-based disks yet, pro
by catch23 15y ago
I think the introduction of the SSD is causing site owners to "leave the cloud". I haven't seen any cloud hosting that lets you choose SSD-based disks yet, probably because it's low demand and high expense. The throughput of a single sata3 SSD blows away any kind of raid setup you can accomplish on EC2.
Also, I don't think you even need $10k in hardware. Sounds like you could do just fine with a $3k 1U server. $3k can still get you 16 cores w/ 32GB memory and SSD drives.
- jdunck 15y agoYou're not factoring load balancer, redundant slave, etc.
- ericd 15y agoEhhh those SLC drives are still mighty pricey, if you want a decent number of them raided, you could probably eat up nearly 10k. And the nice Xeons are expensive.
- jacques_chester 15y agoSSDs make a stunning difference in performance for large, complex joins that won't fit in RAM. However, I imagine that in 5-10 years time 'the cloud' will use them too; even if only as part of a larger storage pool.