We had a dedicated server with Hetzner. Once our ecommerce instance got 350+ concurrent users peak we were experiencing some slowdowns and decided to upgrade RAM from 16 to 32GB, as well as adding 240GB SSD drive additionally to our 3TB SATA drive.
It is quite problematic to switch the whole system to SSD, therefore I have a question and hope you will get be understand:
Can I just move /var folder to SSD drive. All our vhost web data is stored in /var/www. Would that increase performance? Or some other essential system elements should be also switched to SSD?
As far as I understand, the benefit of SSD is faster and simultaneous read/write. Will I achieve the benefits by just ensuring faster read/write for our web data?
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Thanks for your help