Nginx using linode block storage

Depends on how the block storage works, haven't used Linode's yet. If it's like DigitalOcean's block storage and you can mount the block storage to any directory, then you can be very creative as to how you configure it. i.e. you could mount the block storage as a new /home/nginx mount prior to centmin mod install so all /home/nginx/domain sites are on block storage and have mysql data on local disk in /var/lib/mysql if there is enough room on /var. Or have separate block storage mounts for /home/nginx, /var/lib/mysql and even /svr-setup if you want.

If you mount them as existing known directories prior to centmin mod install, then you don't have to do anything centmin mod alteration wise.

Note block storage will be slower than local disk most of the time i.e. o DigitalOcean's block storage was around 40-50% the performance of local disks.

 

just did a quick $5 Linode VPS test with 20GB block storage mounted as /home/nginx

full benchmarks at Linode - Linode Block Storage - Early Access

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Total Curl Installer YUM or DNF Time: 111.7093 seconds
Total YUM Time: 12.132566469 seconds
Total YUM or DNF + Source Download Time: 40.5412
Total Nginx First Time Install Time: 409.5826
Total PHP First Time Install Time: 719.5636
Download Zip From Github Time: 3.7432
Total Time Other eg. source compiles: 391.3836
Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 1561.0710
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Total Install Time (curl yum + cm install + zip download): 1676.5235 seconds
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df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root      ext4       20G  5.3G   13G  29% /
devtmpfs       devtmpfs  493M  4.0K  493M   1% /dev
tmpfs          tmpfs     495M     0  495M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs          tmpfs     495M  7.7M  488M   2% /run
tmpfs          tmpfs     495M     0  495M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs          tmpfs      99M     0   99M   0% /run/user/0
/dev/sdc       ext4       20G   45M   19G   1% /home/nginx
/dev/loop0     ext4      976M  2.6M  907M   1% /tmp

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ls -lah /home/nginx/domains/
total 12K
drwxr-s--- 3 nginx nginx 4.0K Jul 23 00:09 .
drwxr-sr-x 4 nginx nginx 4.0K Jul 23 00:09 ..
drwxr-x--- 6 nginx nginx 4.0K Jul 23 00:09 demodomain.com

 

yeah that would work too

though haven't checked if linode backup's include block storage ?

ah from Linode Forum :: Linode Block Storage (beta)