Would you pay more for SSD VPS

SSD drives are mostly preferred over conventional drives for two reasons, speed and reliability. The cost of SSD drives has also reduced, if the SSD drive option is available with the VPS at a nominal rate the customers won't mind paying few bucks. ;)
 
I would pay more for a VPS with high iops if i ever need a VPS with high iops (i.e. for hosting database intensive websites, etc.). How the host accomplishes the high iops is not such a concern for me - whether they use huge array of expensive sas 15k drives or a smaller array of cheaper sata drives + SSD cache - i don't care. Although as a host i would prefer to do the second option - because it's cheaper and also works amazingly well.
 
I would not make the decision based on SSD Drives alone. I would look at the provider pretty close. Also I am totally sold on SSD for high volume read write which VPS would be. I would look for a provider with 15K SAS first. The 15K SAS Drives work great they have great MTBF have been proven and probably cost less.
 
Based on our performance tests, SSDs load pages up to 300% faster than standard hard drives. It's totally worth a few extra bucks per month.
 
a2hosting said:
Based on our performance tests, SSDs load pages up to 300% faster than standard hard drives. It's totally worth a few extra bucks per month.
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I wish I had more info to qualify what your saying but what basis is the 300% based on. Connection speed etc would seem to be a limitation when you say 300%. I mean a plain jane website / blog with minimal photos loads up in mere seconds off most servers, however since Hi-speed Internet can be kind of a misnomer here in the US (depending on provider and where you live) that has been where most problems lie.

I can see where SSD could help out large database access's especially on the back end, or maybe load time for certain types of media, but again the "pipe" in and out has always been the big stumbling block.
 
Because of their own cpu to manage data storage they are more faster than traditional hdds and produce highest possible I/O rates.

vpss on single hardware node have high disk I/O as compare to any shared host. As the no. of vpss are goes on increasing it lowers the performance of hardware node as far as disk I/O is concerned.

So it is always better to have ssd on a vps hardware node.
 
MilesGeek said:
SSD drives are mostly preferred over conventional drives for two reasons, speed and reliability
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SSD provides faster reads, more-or-less the same writes, and much lower levels of reliability - apart from boot-up time, whether you'd get any benefit at all for being on a VPS with SSD's is entirely down to what you're running and how it works.
 
It is indeed not only about SSDs but about connectors, controllers, SAN, pipe size, etc.
You could have a SAN full of SSDs with a single Gb connection and it would make no difference whatsoever if it's an SSD or a plain SATA 5400.
 
I would pay the extra penny for SSD. It dose improve speed in my opinion. I have used SSD for a vps before I ever used it on my PC and boy I do agree that its faster and improves i/o time. I would pay extra but then again I would only be looking at that kind of drive only if I needed it as to such if I was hosting a big database site where a lot will be read and written to the database.

Overall if I need it I'll pay the extra money for it;
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If I don't need it but they have it for a good price i'll get it;
 
VPS and dedicated servers with SSD drives are more powerful and quick in comparison to SATA and SAS drives. That is why SSD drives are more expensive, but in my opinion it it better to pay more for the server and have reliable hardware installed on it.
 
The read/write speed of SSD-drives is much higher than on ordinary SATA or SAS drives.
Each VPS runs 30-40 thousands IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) operations. This is much more than the usual 150 IOPS operations on SATA or SAS drives.
This will let your VPS server to handle the database, web server, mail and other application queries used by your site more quickly.

I know that Fastnext company offers reliable SSD servers.
 
The answer to many questions like this is, “it depends”. When people compare storage media, they usually check megabytes per seconds, but to be honest it is only applicable if you are doing large block reads and write.

But in case of software development, where a number of different files need to be read and write to compile an application, then the number of I/O operations per second need to be checked as it is a better indicator to analyse overall performance.

Although, it is up to you to figure out whether the performance differences give a good reason for the additional costs.
 
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