Multiple Home Partition [LOGGED]

prasad0889

+1 for this feature.

PradeepC

+1 for this feature!

Adam

It's definitely possible. It will make admin slightly harder as you won't be able to assume a website path to be /var/www/{uuid} and it will also make server moves more tricky as the partition structure of the destination server may not match the source. Potentially this could be mitigated with symlinks.

The feature request is logged.

paul-bob

Any update about this here Adam @Aliysa_Enhance ?

paul-bob

This feature is very very important, @Adam !

AdamM

8Dweb

Adam Adam, I actually prefer how it is setup now. I realize that not all users of Enhance have the ability or infrastructure, but I would personally spin up a new server in the cluster to handle extra demand, rather than extend. I do think metrovps's idea has merit, but at what point is the vps going to be overloaded, and a new one spun up in any case.

prasad0889

Bump

jeff

+1 and another bump.

SharedGrid

Interested in what the use case for multiple home dirs is? Surely it's not down to expanding disk space, as you could just use LVM for adding extra space?

PradeepC

SharedGrid This generally comes down to VPS which has lower space with NVMe drives at the beginning and you figure out the server can handle a couple more websites/accounts easily, but you are short on disk space. We then need to attach a Block Storage to the server, and this time having multiple locations to host the files is beneficial.

SharedGrid

PradeepC LVM should be used for this, in my opinion. I don't see any benefit in using multiple home dirs over LVM.

JohnB

SharedGrid LVM isn't always an option with a VPS. For example not every VPS will be be provisioned with LVM.

I agree the "correct" way would be to use LVM and that's how I would do it in a dedicated enviroment but not have every VPS gives you this luxury even from reputable providers.

Also in theory if you had two mount points you could set which one to use at a package level. If you have an NVME raid and SSD raid in the same dedicated server you could sell two packages (NVME and SSD).

Adam

We still have the feature request open but it's not yet been scheduled for development. Since Enhance does not charge an additional licence fee per server, if you are running low on disk space it's easier just to add a new server to your cluster and move some of the larger websites to it.

broiniac

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is logged any more. There is no related entry on roadmap.