By info187161
DigitalOcean does not have any separate private networking between droplets. It also does not have the ability to add storage to droplets.
So the only option left is buying more droplets and mounting them. Have anyone tried this? How it is efficient, what are benchmarks? Is it a good idea at all?
Regards, Anton
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You can set up a GlusterFS cluster on your droplets. I believe the performance will be good enough as there is minimal latency between droplets (since they are routed in the datacenter itself).
If you want something simpler I’ve had sshfs work very well. (It’s generally not fast enough to serve files from though, but give it a spin - if you cache a lot of things in memory it could work well.)
From what I have seen GlusterFS is just creating mirrors yes? I think what I want and what the original poster wants is to combine the storage of multiple droplets into one massive amount of disk space moutable on a main droplet. Can glusterfs do that? I am using SSHFS for now to just transfer files around my server but I would ideally like to have a big blob of space that is accessible locally.
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