Making use of added storage volumes

[Falco]

@ljpp

we would be talking about base system and database

At least on Digital Ocean that would be a 3x performance penalty

Need a how-to guide for using DigitalOcean Block Storage for image uploads

The man makes a point. It appears to be less than 1/3 the speed on the simplest of benchmarks. (I checked and both the host and the storage are at SFO2.) root#:dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/output conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB, 384 MiB) copied, 0.590498 s, 682 MB/s root#:dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/volume-sfo2-01/test conv=fdatasync bs=384k count=1k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 402653184 bytes (403 MB, 384 MiB) copied, 1.99937 s, 201…