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fernandoch · Joined: 20 May 2011 Posts: 57 Location: Spain

What is the best solution to have a big storage like more than 160 GB with a small linode?

hoopycat · Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 8:06 am Post subject:

Amazon S3 plus some sort of storage backend for your application.

fernandoch · Joined: 20 May 2011 Posts: 57 Location: Spain

Any manual to setup all that?

Is that it?

http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/S3fs

obs · Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 1403 Location: Earth

It depends on your application, I wouldn't use s3fs myself I'd use something built into the application itself.

S3 is not a traditional file system it's not designed to operating with normal operating system commands you communicate with it using a rest api.

fernandoch · Joined: 20 May 2011 Posts: 57 Location: Spain

If it is for mysql storage?

obs · Joined: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 1403 Location: Earth

It won't work for mysql storage, the only way to get more storage for mysql on a linode is to have a bigger linode.

empoweringmedia · Joined: 16 Nov 2011 Posts: 35 Location: United States

IMHO if you require a lot of online storage (not nearline like S3), your best best is NOT to use Linode. Amazon's storage per GB is much cheaper. We keep our backup solution with Amazon S3 service because it is much cheaper than with Linode. I do wish Linode had more options with storage.

fernandoch · Joined: 20 May 2011 Posts: 57 Location: Spain

Will it work for mysql storage then?

hoopycat · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:19 am Post subject:

Amazon EBS does work for MySQL, yes, as it simply provides a block device and you construct a filesystem on it. However, it lacks some of the performance and reliability of Linode storage, and EC2 is... well, there's some learning curve. But, if you absolutely need a MySQL database that large (how many binary large objects are in there?), it'll let you get pretty large.

hybinet · Joined: 02 May 2008 Posts: 1058

empoweringmedia wrote: have a big storage like more than 160 GB
Linode has large plans all the way up to 800GB disk space. Plans larger than 160GB are not on the front page, but they can be selected on the signup page. They cost a lot, though, and they're not "small" by any means.

Amazon EBS also gets quite expensive if you want to get any sort of performance out of it. EC2 is slow as molasses unless you buy a larger instance, and you also have to get lots of EBS blocks and RAID them, otherwise they're too slow. Fast reliable storage ain't cheap.

If you don't need high speed and reliability, then of course you could just get a dedicated server with a couple of 3TB hard drives. But even these are expensive nowadays, because hard drive prices have gone through the roof courtesy of floods in Thailand.

fernandoch · Joined: 20 May 2011 Posts: 57 Location: Spain

I just want to know all the possibilities for a web application. I find the 160 GB not big enough for a medium system.

Thank you all for the replies.

empoweringmedia · Joined: 16 Nov 2011 Posts: 35 Location: United States

hybinet wrote:
Linode has large plans all the way up to 800GB disk space. Plans larger than 160GB are not on the front page, but they can be selected on the signup page. They cost a lot, though, and they're not "small" by any means.

Amazon EBS also gets quite expensive if you want to get any sort of performance out of it. EC2 is slow as molasses unless you buy a larger instance, and you also have to get lots of EBS blocks and RAID them, otherwise they're too slow. Fast reliable storage ain't cheap.

I am aware of this, and you are correct. Amazon you really need a decent sized instance, whereas Linode gives 4 CPU access to all instance sizes.

At least for our experience the sweet spot seems to be Linode's 2048 instance size. After that you are best to look at EC2 for options, at least with disk space.

Large storage with small linode