Block Storage with Load Balancers

@timgavin

Each block storage instance can only be mounted to a single droplet. You wouldn’t be able to share the block storage across multiple droplets simultaneously.

If you need to share storage across multiple Droplets, I’d recommend looking in to GlusterFS.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-redundant-storage-pool-using-glusterfs-on-ubuntu-servers

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GlusterFS will allow you to setup a client and multiple storage nodes. It can be a bit finicky (based on my experience) but it does work.

Thanks for that info.

So I wouldn’t be able to access a block storage drive from another droplet, even with private networking?

What are your thoughts on this: I set up a droplet and add a block storage drive to it, then set up a site and serve all media on the block storage drive under a URL, such as media.mysite.com? Would that work? Seems like it would be easier to maintain, and since block storage is scalable to a huge volume it should be viable for quite some time.