How to add more disk space

I have a self hosted Discourse instance. I am running out of disk space. I need to get a new storage volume. Is there a guide to adding in extra space to run Discourse?

There’s two things you might be doing. One is scaling up your host, something your provider probably allows in a web interface. The details will depend on your provider. The other is using external storage, such as S3 or an S3 compatible service. I think those are inherently scalable (with pricing according to usage) so the question would be about migrating to s3 compatible storage.

If you search for either of those you’ll find lots of previous guidance. Or you can use ask.

Edit: maybe there’s a third thing you might be doing, adding a storage volume to your host. That’s also a hosting provider thing. Perhaps see Move Uploads and Backups to DigitalOcean Block Storage. Hetzner calls these Volumes.