I assume you are talking about Amazon EC2? Shouldn't it be obvious that the slowest part in the network is the weakest link, not necessarily the server. Look at it from the general public's point of view not just the tech world's.
I would be wary of running my app on something that out-performs what normal people see. It would give me a distorted view on the project, although I appreciate that during development you need speed.
But it's more than that. Even if you had the fastest latest SSD servers to offer, all your speed would be lost on a poor network connection.
Your users could be miles away from the nearest big node,or not have access to a big pipe and they'd see no real difference, in performance, and you as a developer with a nice shiny SSD, wonder what their problem is?
I agree you need to get fast responses to web apps, but there are so so many factors that contribute to bad performance issues, the hard drives are just a really small part of what could be going wrong.
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I assume you are talking about Amazon EC2? Shouldn't it be obvious that the slowest part in the network is the weakest link, not necessarily the server. Look at it from the general public's point of view not just the tech world's.
I would be wary of running my app on something that out-performs what normal people see. It would give me a distorted view on the project, although I appreciate that during development you need speed.
But it's more than that. Even if you had the fastest latest SSD servers to offer, all your speed would be lost on a poor network connection.
Your users could be miles away from the nearest big node,or not have access to a big pipe and they'd see no real difference, in performance, and you as a developer with a nice shiny SSD, wonder what their problem is?
I agree you need to get fast responses to web apps, but there are so so many factors that contribute to bad performance issues, the hard drives are just a really small part of what could be going wrong.