Disk Management

ricochetrec

Hello

On my cPanel servers, I typically set each up with three disks: the first for the OS, the second for client data, and the third for backup creation.

Is there a way to do this with Enhance servers? As I have been testing importing accounts from cPanel, I found that there seems to be nothing preventing the servers from completely filling the primary disk space.

xyzulu

ricochetrec Backups are typically stored on a separate server..
Enhance doesn't manage disk on install etc, so if you wanted to use a separate disk you would need to do this manually and mount /var/www

I haven't tried this myself.. as we only use SSD drives now and would rather have multiple servers rather than a single point of failure (single server).

ricochetrec

xyzulu totally understand using multiple servers, thats one of the reasons we are moving toward Enhance.

However, we do want to keep the client data separate from the OS disk. There is a long list of reasons for that. After mounting /var/www are there any configuration changes that need to be made in Enhance?

xyzulu

ricochetrec There is nothing special with the way Enhance accesses the file system. I'm not clear on what help/advice you need, but why not open a ticket with support if there is some issue you need to explain more in depth etc with Enhance.

Kosta

ricochetrec try setting up away of OS drive, the /lscache folder on a single drive on PCI E card drive with lots of speed and /www folder on raid 5 array with nvmes

gmakhs

Kosta Lcache can grow pretty big, i think other panels and ALSO enhance do set this folder within the user www (or atleast it shouldbe) this way the disk used per user is charged.

Setting it away won't break that?

Kosta

gmakhs we can manage with Cron job the cashe folder space maybe?
I prefer to be on separate drive or to be able to make it on separate drive with the ability directly into enhance UI to manage set this directory types as we do for backup mount/

gmakhs

Kosta you can manage on litespeed ui i believe, but its not something i would use a seperate disk for, the size during plugin errors can increase hundrends of Gbs, its better in the user folder.

Also i am using raid10 so i am quite happy how enhance sets the directory i find no reason of using different disks when Raid is in place.

What would be nice is to be able to set Diferent disk for sql from the UI and diferent mount point for the website files, this way you can combine sata with SSD , but that is easily resolved buy just adding another sql server node

ricochetrec

Thanks everyone for the replies. There are several reasons for separating client data from the OS drive. One is to prevent system crashes because the drive is full. Another is to accommodate how we have our back operations structured.

During testing, I was importing a cPanel account, which failed because the compressed file was much smaller than the space needed to accommodate the full account after importing.

We are using VMs in a cloud hosting environment. By separating the data, we can also choose the best mix of drives to achieve speed/price balance.

We are currently planning to place the following on a separate drive(s):
/var/orchd/importer
/var/www
/var/local/enhance/email/mailboxes
/var/lib/mysql
Backup Location is chosen when adding the app and must be a file system that supports hard links

ricochetrec

Just finished adding two drives to one of my servers. Enhance shows the drives in its disk usage graph, which gives us some nice visibility into the status of the server. That was a nice little surprise!