Hey All! We’re excited to announce that we’ve launched our SSD-based Block Storage service. Now you’re able to attach up to 16TB of storage to your Droplets.

Learn more here: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/

Hey All! We’re excited to announce that we’ve launched our SSD-based Block Storage service. Now you’re able to attach up to 16TB of storage to your Droplets.

Learn more here: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/storage/

Jesus fuck it’s been 3 years and you’re still “working on it”? Brb spinning up some namecheap instances.

We are working on the storage question. <br> <br>There are a lot of things to take into account, whether its going to be block level or NFS or accessed via some sort of an API for storage/retrieval. <br> <br>While the API could potentially allow us the most flexibility in terms of backend architecture it also requires customers to switch away from a regular FS and instead integrate it directly into their applications and of course there’s always the consideration of security. Specifically, whether the content is public or whether there are restrictions that customers want to place on it. <br> <br>Please feel free to add your comments to our UserVoice and give us your specific use cases and the best way to integrate so we can take all of that into account during the planning stages: <br> <br>http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocean/suggestions/3127077-extra-diskspace-

Hi Paul, <br> <br>Right now our different server sizes are tied directly to the storage options listed. <br> <br>We are actively discussing adding additional storage as part of our product roadmap and there are a few solutions that we are thinking of, varying from providing an API based storage solution similar to S3, to a more block level NFS mount solution, all the way to having specific high storage virtual servers that will include more storage than the standard virtual servers we have now. <br> <br>We’ll be making announcements as soon as we have decided on a path and when we are ready to release a product update in beta for our customers to test. <br> <br>Thanks

Hi Paul, <br> <br>Right now our different server sizes are tied directly to the storage options listed. <br> <br>We are actively discussing adding additional storage as part of our product roadmap and there are a few solutions that we are thinking of, varying from providing an API based storage solution similar to S3, to a more block level NFS mount solution, all the way to having specific high storage virtual servers that will include more storage than the standard virtual servers we have now. <br> <br>We’ll be making announcements as soon as we have decided on a path and when we are ready to release a product update in beta for our customers to test. <br> <br>Thanks

Hi Paul, <br> <br>Right now our different server sizes are tied directly to the storage options listed. <br> <br>We are actively discussing adding additional storage as part of our product roadmap and there are a few solutions that we are thinking of, varying from providing an API based storage solution similar to S3, to a more block level NFS mount solution, all the way to having specific high storage virtual servers that will include more storage than the standard virtual servers we have now. <br> <br>We’ll be making announcements as soon as we have decided on a path and when we are ready to release a product update in beta for our customers to test. <br> <br>Thanks

Hi Paul, <br> <br>Right now our different server sizes are tied directly to the storage options listed. <br> <br>We are actively discussing adding additional storage as part of our product roadmap and there are a few solutions that we are thinking of, varying from providing an API based storage solution similar to S3, to a more block level NFS mount solution, all the way to having specific high storage virtual servers that will include more storage than the standard virtual servers we have now. <br> <br>We’ll be making announcements as soon as we have decided on a path and when we are ready to release a product update in beta for our customers to test. <br> <br>Thanks

Hello, all

If you want to resize your droplet you can all follow our docs here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/how-to/resize/

There are two resizing options for Droplets:

• CPU and RAM only. This option lets you increase or decrease the amount of CPU and RAM available to a Droplet.

• Disk, CPU, and RAM. This option increases the amount of CPU and RAM available to a Droplet and permanently increases the size of a Droplet’s disk.

Considerations Before Resizing

• You cannot decrease the size of a Droplet’s disk. In other words, disk resizes are irreversible.

Data is not always sequentially written in memory, so reducing the available space would risk data loss and filesystem corruption. For more flexibility, you can use block storage volumes for additional data storage, which lets you detach or delete the volume if you no longer need the space.

• Allow for about one minute of downtime per GB of used disk space, though the actual time necessary is typically shorter. You can check the disk storage on the filesystem with df / -h.

Estimated downtime depends on disk usage even for resizes that don’t change the amount of disk space. This is because the Droplet may move to a new hypervisor, which transfers disk data over the network.

• We strongly recommend taking a snapshot of the Droplet before resizing.

Droplets may change hypervisors during a resize, and any changes to a filesystem can lead to data loss if something goes wrong. We strongly recommend backing up the Droplet’s data before resizing. If you use snapshots, you can delete the snapshot after confirming that the resize was successful.

Hope that this helps! Regards, Alex

I got this error:

Error creating Volume: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes: 403 (request “b8173bc0-5b03-4fa7-88bc-4c7bd1b09812”) volume limit exceeded

I couldn’t find any limit mentioned for total volume count anywhere, but apparently there is a limit of 25, and I couldn’t see any form to increase this volume limit like droplet limit.

I’m writing here for making this information public. Is there any way to increase this limit? we’ll need at least 200 volumes in fra-1 region.