For most VPS providers I’ve seen, if you need more storage space you either: Upgrade your whole VPS plan. Buy additional storage volumes. Now if you are running out of disk space, but your CPU/RAM resources are plenty, the additional storage volumes are likely the more cost efficient option. But …

Storage space for what? The database of users, posts, and replies? Or uploads and attachments?

Well, personally I always offload images/attachements to S3,so in my case we would be talking about base system and database. Low cost VPSs tend to come with tiny SSDs.

[image] ljpp: we would be talking about base system and database At least on Digital Ocean that would be a 3x performance penalty [image] Need a how-to guide for using DigitalOcean Block Storage for image uploads Support The man makes a point. It a…

Coming back to this topic. I benchmarked ScaleWay’s 9.99€ plan… https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-cheapest-solution-for-hosting/24060/35?u=ljpp …and noticed that their nice 200GB storage capacity is actually delivered in two volumes: 50GB volume, where the OS is Additional 150GB So what is the b…

This question remains. I benchmarked ScaleWays new intensive workload server, and seems like a viable option for Discourse hosting. But again, theiy deliver the SSD storage as 50+150GB, so how to make use of the additional 150GB volume? By default Discourse-setup will install to the 50GB system vol…

[image] Need a how-to guide for using DigitalOcean Block Storage for image uploads Support I would recommend against symlinking, instead, copy images and amend your container config to point /shared/uploads at the correct location.

I usually offload uploads to S3 anyway. But how to install the base system to other than default location? Symlink might be an idea, but for a reason unknown @sam adviced against them.

You can: Clone discourse_docker (usually /var/discourse) anywhere Point the shared folders to another file system (like on the linked topics) Change docker configs so /var/docker/aufs lands elsewhere. This are the 3 changes that can be made to better use your disk space.

[image] ljpp: For example on Digital Ocean if you upgrade your VPS plan you generally get 2x CPU and RAM, but only 10/20GB increments in disk space. Warning, we have found that the add-on DO storage volumes are half the speed of the base disk: root@vol:/# dd bs=1M count=512 if=/dev/zero of=t…

The difference is much worse. dd is not a good tool to measure performance if you want the results to be anything near what is happening in real life. dd performs a long sequential write, and that is not what your Discourse server is doing. We use fio for benchmarking stuff like this. See this art…

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 25, 2017, 8:02pm 12

That would definitely be my recommendation.

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