Once I found out about NVMe providing up to 2x-10x better performance than regular SSDs, I immediately started wondering when Cloud/VPS providers would offer something based on that technology. I think that before U.2 (or M.2?) was a thing, they were stuck with really expensive PCIE cards. Now I am guessing that something like U.2/M.2 NVMe subsystems can make the price more practical.
But back in September I asked on the Linode forum and also on the Uservoice for Digital Ocean about NVMe storage. Basically I got crickets on Digital Ocean, and "don't be an idiot" from one Linode user. https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...
But I think that as more and more people get computers with M.2 built in, they will eventually start to wonder why their PC's disk is 2x-10x faster than their server's disk.
There are a couple of little providers like UltraVPS, ControlVM, and Gignode that at least say they have NVMe available. I have been thinking about UltraVPS because it looks like a deal.. of course don't know if it really does perform or is reliable.
Basically my thing is that from my experience the faster IOPS/sequential read translates into less database tuning or zero database tuning depending on the application I am coding.
Just to throw another wrinkle in here, I feel like pretty soon the inexpensive VPS/cloud servers will not only have to move to NVMe, but within a few years the expectation may be to include some kind of GPU hardware somehow as a standard thing. Just because neural network stuff seems so important for so many applications these days, and unless we are going full peer-to-peer internet or something I am going to need that on most servers going forward pretty soon.
But back in September I asked on the Linode forum and also on the Uservoice for Digital Ocean about NVMe storage. Basically I got crickets on Digital Ocean, and "don't be an idiot" from one Linode user. https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...
https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=14058&sid=4a574...
But I think that as more and more people get computers with M.2 built in, they will eventually start to wonder why their PC's disk is 2x-10x faster than their server's disk.
There are a couple of little providers like UltraVPS, ControlVM, and Gignode that at least say they have NVMe available. I have been thinking about UltraVPS because it looks like a deal.. of course don't know if it really does perform or is reliable.
Basically my thing is that from my experience the faster IOPS/sequential read translates into less database tuning or zero database tuning depending on the application I am coding.
Just to throw another wrinkle in here, I feel like pretty soon the inexpensive VPS/cloud servers will not only have to move to NVMe, but within a few years the expectation may be to include some kind of GPU hardware somehow as a standard thing. Just because neural network stuff seems so important for so many applications these days, and unless we are going full peer-to-peer internet or something I am going to need that on most servers going forward pretty soon.