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blogspotter

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Planing to get on that.. But just wanted to ask a few thing

Anybody using SSD on your server?
Do you see any great improvement in speed?

I know some of you host PPV landers on SSD, but I would like to know the difference on Wordpress sites, Forums and also Image hosting (because they claim that they are faster than the Amazon service), which if true, I will host all images on a SSD server.
 


ive been with LW for a long time now, but i switched from a dedicated server with the same ram, processor etc from regular HD to SAS and saw *noticeable* differences especially in some of my WP press sites.

i would really like to know what type of SSD's they are using, its really easy to go cheap on those and buy a gen 1/2 SSD which are slower than barracudas right now than to go with some of the newer gen 3s by intel etc. im sure that info is available on their site.

ive got a huge customer (medical supply) WP site with a HAAAUGGGE table something like 9000 pages and you can really tell the difference esp when doing an in-site search.

its a good move
 
Just keep good backups, cheap SSD's only last 12 months with heavy use. If they're using something like Intel SSD's then you're probably safe.
 
We started implementing SSD's on our new client dedicated servers and I've been quite impressed.

No hosting company is going to use cheap SSD's, so honestly I wouldn't worry so much what SSD's they are using.
 
SSD will def give you improvement if you are on heavy reading side. It always depends on the site. If your bottleneck is drives, then by all means try it out. But you need to establish that first, and not just assume that the problem is with slow drives. Often times, it could be low memory, or slow CPU as well.
 
cheshire said:
LOL. Ok, sure.
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moltar said:
SSD will def give you improvement if you are on heavy reading side. It always depends on the site. If your bottleneck is drives, then by all means try it out. But you need to establish that first, and not just assume that the problem is with slow drives. Often times, it could be low memory, or slow CPU as well.
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My sites aren't slow.. But I thought I could maybe make my homepages heavier, with a faster server.. They are basic wordpress sites.. With posts. i don't even use pages anymore...

I have kept all my homepage light so that they load fast, and on the other hand google is giving more weight to more and more richer pages...
 
blogspotter said:
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My sites aren't slow.. But I thought I could maybe make my homepages heavier, with a faster server.. They are basic wordpress sites.. With posts. i don't even use pages anymore...

I have kept all my homepage light so that they load fast, and on the other hand google is giving more weight to more and more richer pages...
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I would start looking at caching first, and combining assets (CSS/JS). Basically reduce the number of requests. Usually the homepage is "heavier" becaues it is the first page you visit, and it pre-loads all of the JS/CSS files and all of the subsequent pages are loading CSS/JS from cache therefor appearing to load faster.
 
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