Hello everyone!
I'm pleased to announce that all OpenVZ plans with 256MB+ RAM will be allowed to upgrade to pure SSD
backed space sometime in the coming weeks.You'll have to sacrifice half of your space, though We will be honoring all space purchased w/o issue. All new 256MB+ plans starting next month will be provisioned on the SSD nodes. All other nodes will slowly migrate through-out the months.
When will it be available?
We expect to start offering this later this week. We'll be asking for up to a week to complete anyone
in the initial migration batch. We expect it to go by very quickly but Anthony prefers batching it
than doing a single person at a time.
Is there a change in price?
None at all.As mentioned you'll have to sacrifice half of your disk space, though, to make this possible.
How about disk upgrades?
[stike]At this time we've not come up with a solid plan for 'additional space' on the SSD based nodes. If you
have purchased additional space you'll not be eligable for the upgrade. Lets be honest, though,
if you bought a 50GB addon you're probably not looking for raw IOPs performance but rather bulk storage
All diskspace addons will be honoured without issue :3
What RAID setup will you be using?
We'll be using an LSI 9261/9265 card. We'll have 8 x 512GB SSD's in a RAID10.
We'll be using Adaptec 7805 RAID cards. For drives we'll be using either Crucial 8x960GB drives or samsung 8x1TB drives.
Will the old plans still be available?
Yes! We're not phasing these out yet so you're welcome to keep them. We do recommend you upgrading, though,
as your performance will greatly increase. If you're looking to take part in our fortnight backups &
snapshots feature you'll want the SSD's in action to improve how quickly archiving occurs.
Our old plans will no long exist as they'll all be converted to SSD storage.
How about KVM's?
We expect to offer the same deal to all KVM's later this month or sometime next month.
Why not use more SSD caching?
It's too easy to flood an SSD with useless data to cache slowing down the mechanical array as well as causing the SSD to constantly have to shuffle data around. Our current adaptec cards don't handle SSD caching very well and doing it in software has its own headaches.
We'll continue to use our current SSD caching setup but feel this new SSD offer will fit
the vast majority of our users.
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Thank you everyone for your continued support and feedback in our mass email survery!
Francisco
I'm pleased to announce that all OpenVZ plans with 256MB+ RAM will be allowed to upgrade to pure SSD
backed space sometime in the coming weeks.
When will it be available?
We expect to start offering this later this week. We'll be asking for up to a week to complete anyone
in the initial migration batch. We expect it to go by very quickly but Anthony prefers batching it
than doing a single person at a time.
Is there a change in price?
None at all.
How about disk upgrades?
[stike]At this time we've not come up with a solid plan for 'additional space' on the SSD based nodes. If you
have purchased additional space you'll not be eligable for the upgrade. Lets be honest, though,
if you bought a 50GB addon you're probably not looking for raw IOPs performance but rather bulk storage
All diskspace addons will be honoured without issue :3
What RAID setup will you be using?
We'll be using an LSI 9261/9265 card. We'll have 8 x 512GB SSD's in a RAID10.
We'll be using Adaptec 7805 RAID cards. For drives we'll be using either Crucial 8x960GB drives or samsung 8x1TB drives.
Will the old plans still be available?
Yes! We're not phasing these out yet so you're welcome to keep them. We do recommend you upgrading, though,
as your performance will greatly increase. If you're looking to take part in our fortnight backups &
snapshots feature you'll want the SSD's in action to improve how quickly archiving occurs.
Our old plans will no long exist as they'll all be converted to SSD storage.
How about KVM's?
We expect to offer the same deal to all KVM's later this month or sometime next month.
Why not use more SSD caching?
It's too easy to flood an SSD with useless data to cache slowing down the mechanical array as well as causing the SSD to constantly have to shuffle data around. Our current adaptec cards don't handle SSD caching very well and doing it in software has its own headaches.
We'll continue to use our current SSD caching setup but feel this new SSD offer will fit
the vast majority of our users.
------
Thank you everyone for your continued support and feedback in our mass email survery!
Francisco
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