| Douglas Muth on 15 May 2012 07:47:17 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] VPS Recommendation |
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org> wrote: > I am not a database expert by any stretch but isn't there an optimization option that could make better use of system memory rather than depend on fast back-end storage? > > In particular depending on how the data is accessed could you cache, say, in 2-3gb of RAM and those use a 4gb VPS or similar? That may still not be reasonably priced with Linode but at least it's a less specialized hosting service and you could shop it around a little more. > I agree. If you limit yourself to SSD in the VPS space, you're going to miss out on a lot of options. Depending on what data you have and how you're searching for it, instances of memcache spread across multiple machines is one option. Using Elastic Search in a cluster is another. -- Doug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug