Has your hosting company explained exactly what you're getting with an "SSD"? These days you sometimes see "hosting on SSD" as an optional extra. But it can be very hard finding out exactly what that means. It might mean converged storage where an SSD array is acting as a cache for a much larger conventional disk array. If you're lucky it might mean space allocated on an all-flash array.

Regardless, it's in the host's best interest to wring every gram of performance out of the storage subsystems. They'll (over)subscribe the throughput and IOPS until it squeals i.e. too much throughput or IOPS requests, too high a percentage of cache misses etc. How they tweak their control dials dictates the performance of your app. It's dynamic, too - if you have noisy neighbours your app's performance will suffer.

I'd also be wary of a host trying to win your business. While wooing you your services might be run on a lightly-loaded backend. Then when the contract's signed they might put you on overloaded main infrastructure.

>With our hosting company, we are playing with performance factors for FoxInCloud;
>We chose one step of the FoxinCloud process as a reference benchmark.
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>Here is what we found (in sec.):
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>HDD:
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min: 0,047
>avg: 0,107
>max: 0,462

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>SSD:
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min: 0,078
>avg: 0,096 && 10% less
>max: 0,125 && 75% less

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>SSD makes response times faster (in avg) and more stable (less variation).
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>Our idea is: integrate this information in the FoxInCloud Web Application Dashboard (also see attached SS)
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>>I see there's been a lot of effort to get this information. But, I have to wonder how useful it is - can you let us know what you're trying to do?
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>>- It's only useful on real hardware, it's useless in a VM. VFP running on real hardware is becoming less common these days
>>- Real hardware has undergone huge changes in the last 1 to 2 years. As just one example, on small systems you can see 2 types of hybrid drives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_drive . Some of them are designed to be transparent to OSs and even motherboard SATA controllers. I'm not sure in practice if they would be reported as fast mechanical drives or slow SSDs
>>- Enterprise storage has been converging extremely rapidly in the last year, there are new bus and device types not present in your MSDN link. As that technology trickles down you'll start seeing it in packages as small as single servers