I have doubts about the 2 VPS, does it make a lot of difference to the common ssd for NVME?
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The discussion revolves around the differences between Vultr’s SSD and NVMe offerings. Eduardo_Braga initiated the conversation, questioning the advantages of NVMe over traditional SSD. Solari shared their experience of upgrading to the High Frequency instance with NVMe, reporting noticeable improvements in speed, upgrade process, and backup times. marianord highlighted the technical advantages of NVMe, citing benchmarks showing at least 10x faster speeds, although noting that some Cloud NVMe instances may be slower than local SATA SSDs.
Just for kicks I recently upgraded from Vultr’s regular Cloud $5 instance to their High Frequency one at $6 to see if I could tell any difference in speed and such for an extra $1/mo ; )
I haven’t run any benchmark tests but I can tell Discourse is faster, the upgrade process was quicker and so were backups.
So from an “eyeballing” perspective, I’m seeing quite a bit of difference from the upgrade.
Ray
Technically there should be a really big advantage of using NVMe, from what I have been able to test generally the NMVes offered by Cloud providers are at least 10x faster which would improve a lot of things.
Important to note that in some benchmarks I did I found the Cloud NVMe slower than a local SATA SSD (like the SSD in my PC), but still an improvement.
Adding to the NVMe change, Discourse gets a really good speed bump from the higher frequency, so that helps too.