External storage for host attachment

[Akam]

there is amazon and digitalocean option is available, but what if someone wants to use self hosted storage server?

 

[digitalpoint]

If it’s physically attached to your web host, that’s easy enough… just symlink or mount it to the correct directory.

Doesn’t really qualify as a suggestion though…

 

[Akam]

lets say i have sever from host 1. and i have storage server from host 2. if one storage server filled-up get another storage server 3

assume you have 100tb data. one single server hdd won't work. you have to use multiple server for that purpose.

 

[digitalpoint]

You are talking about something that normally would be handled at the operating system level, not the application level, so there's nothing special you need to do in XenForo to be able to write to whatever mount point you have on your server. For example maybe you use Gluster to spread data around multiple servers for both sharding and redundancy. But you don't need to somehow set that up or configure it in XenForo to use it since the application is just reading/writing to the filesystem as far as it's concerned.

 

[G00GLE]

You are talking about something that normally would be handled at the operating system level, not the application level, so there's nothing special you need to do in XenForo to be able to write to whatever mount point you have on your server. For example maybe you use Gluster to spread data around multiple servers for both sharding and redundancy. But you don't need to somehow set that up or configure it in XenForo to use it since the application is just reading/writing to the filesystem as far as it's concerned.

Currently there is software that allows you to create your own object storage server such as MinIO.

We know that having our own server is less expensive than Amazon or similar prices, therefore if we have the opportunity to save we would choose to use MinIO.
I don't know the difficulty in putting it into practice, especially for people with little programming knowledge.
So I would be grateful for an answer to this question.

Regards!

 

[MySiteGuy]

Most Internet service providers do not allow servers to operate on their resident accounts.

 

[FTL]

Most Internet service providers do not allow servers to operate on their resident accounts.

I believe the new breed of unlimited symmetric gigabit services from altnets might be ok with it though. One would have to check the t's and c's from their provider to be sure.

 

[G00GLE]

Most Internet service providers do not allow servers to operate on their resident accounts.

That's strange, I know some companies that have no problem with that.

 

[digitalpoint]

Honestly though, I think the bigger issue is reliability. There’s a definite difference between my 1Gbit symmetrical fiber I have at home vs. the connection I have my servers colocated with. One is $75 monthly and one is $800 for theoretically the same speed (1Gbit). One has redundant/multiple routes and one just feeds into a single ISP.

Very different things… I’d never host anything that end-users would be affected by on a residential class internet connection.

 

[G00GLE]

i mean, what about a dedicated server or vps?