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sad thing is, most people don't realize how slow they are. once they move off to dedicated w/ SSD, their site starts to run blazing fast (plus at a fraction of
by jaequery 14y ago
sad thing is, most people don't realize how slow they are. once they move off to dedicated w/ SSD, their site starts to run blazing fast (plus at a fraction of the cost) and say to themselves why they haven't done this sooner.
- gsibble 14y agoIndeed. Most companies don't have the operational experience to optimize for speed until they are later stage. Also, they will develop on something like Heroku and get addicted to the ease of use.
- joevandyk 14y agoDo SSDs improve performance with PostgreSQL if most of your data fits in ram? I guess it depends on the type of workload (reads vs writes).
- X-Istence 14y agoYes, it improves performance because PostgreSQL wants to write data out to disk before returning.