We had several web sites hosted by lighttpd on a single server. We wanted to make on-line backups of them, something we've procrastinated a long time! Once you see how simple it is to make online backups of your data with our OpenSolaris VPS ZFS file system, we hope you won't follow the same path as …
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SSD's are flash based drives (a more advanced version of the one you might find in a digital camera) connected to SATA interfaces. There are no moving parts and hence are faster than HDD's but slower than RAM. SSD's fit in the middle and have benefits of both.
Don't mess with the the ZFS cloned BE (boot environments) of the zones using zfs commands. There is very little documentation out there, so here is what we've found with ZFS, zones, and IPS upgrades.
Sun just announced some SSD based servers. This is just awesome news. We'll hopefully get some of them soon and can start offering it to our customers. Stay tuned.