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When to switch to network storage (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by surewhynotlem@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been selfhosting a while. I run around 15 distinct services in docker containers, all on a single machine with a medium sized disk. It's a small form factor, and I recently had to add space, so I've attached an external USB storage device.

It feels clunky.

At what point does a performant SAN/NAS make sense more than local storage? When did you make the jump?

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

When you want to disconnect compute from storage.

If you have more than one compute node you can reboot one without taking any services down. Or you can add more nodes and they share the storage.

I have two proxmox servers, but I don't run separate storage. Small services use zfs and replication. My big media server VM stays put and has to be shut down if I reboot its host.