I’m self hosting on Linode and am planning to add a block storage volume because there’s no longer enough space for Discourse to compress its backups. (I’ve done a docker image prune etc which is giving us a bit of time, but we’ll need to upgrade the server soon.)
Do the /var/discourse and /var/docker folders need to be on the same volume, or could one stay on the original server’s disk and the other move to the new block storage volume? I suspect that Linode block storage volumes are stored very close to the shared CPU drives (possibly sometimes even on the same physical drive).
Does anyone have any experience with adding a block storage volume on Linode, and whether it would hurt performance to put these folders on different volumes?