By ixdbackup
(At other providers the block storage is 5 times slower.) I would like to provide shared hosting, would serving website files from block storage be ill advised? thanks.
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Block does not necessarily have to be slower.
Good shared block solutions are same performance or faster than local SSDs :)
Block storage by virtue of being network attached will be slower than local storage. That said, serving static content and website files is a very good use case for block storage.
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