What is the speed difference between block storage vs local storage??
I am not much concerned about read-write speed,
I want to know more about website loading speed. Will it be slow or the same When someone opens it in the browser and the MySQL performance?
I use cpanel.
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Hello, @mobicom9
You can check this question that was previously asked in our community:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/block-storage-volume-performance
The reply from Ethan Fox is that one to check out.
Block storage volumes are network-based block devices that provide additional data storage for Droplets. You can move them between Droplets and resize them at any time.
Volumes are most useful when you need more storage space but don’t need the additional processing power or memory that a larger Droplet would provide, like:
Performance: Like Droplets, volumes are backed by SSDs.
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/volumes/
If you’re interested to use block storage as /home2 on your cPanel server you can also check this question in our community:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-i-add-a-new-volume-disk-to-my-droplet-for-whm-cpanel-to-use-as-home2-how-can-i-downgrade-downsize
Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex