[PLUG-TALK] SSD lstat performance questions and seeking hard proof

[Richard Powell]

On 11/25/2016 5:31 PM, Richard Powell wrote:
> On 11/25/2016 3:17 PM, Chris Schafer wrote:
>>
>> Give that the mix could have a significant effect.  You could
>> probably test on AWS instances using different storage types before
>> jumping in. 
>>

Ah... So AWS allows you to choose your storage types?  I wasn't aware of
that.

I've only checked out AWS a couple of times, and it was such a pain that
I just turned away from it.   I thought I was setting up something
really simple for a friend.  Something I would have expected to pay like
$20/month for, and suddenly they got billed more than $50 for a single
month.  This was for a single website with hardly no traffic at all. 
Not sure the hell they were billing for.  It made no sense at all.   So
instead, I now recommend linode.com where the price seems pretty static
for a simple VM.

Anyway.  If they do offer the choice of storage types, perhaps that
could work.  If I'm willing to spend the time figuring their shit out in
a way they don't over bill me for a simple website.  ;-)