29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
10:29 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:41:47PM +0000, Andy Bennett wrote:
I've been a happy Bitfolk customer for some time and now I'm looking at
adding some more storage to my VPS.
...
I'm definitely in two minds. I want the storage
for IMAP... and as everyone
knows, IMAP and RDBMS are all about the number of spindles. ...but if I only
have a small handful of users (albeit ones who all have their phones
connected almost all the time), would everything stick nicely in the page
cache and spare me noticing the performance of the underlying storage?
Not on BitFolk, but when I was using Bytemark's "BigV" I had some archive
storage attached and tried using that for my IMAP email (about 4GB of
it). It worked but was noticeably slow. I think their archive storage
was attached by some sort of fast networking connection (sorry to be
vague about this) - anyway, a consultation with tech support confirmed
that the archive grade storage was optimized for large blocks of data
transfer, and access to thousands of small files would be inefficient. I
switched back to the usual SSD and all was well.
My 2p's worth...
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