Question
Do I need GlusterFS replication with DigitalOcean?
- Posted on October 21, 2015
- DigitalOceanClusteringServer OptimizationBillingScaling
Asked by Bullettoothtobi
In all tutorials I find people using replications for their gluster setup. Is this really necessary with DigitalOcean where we have an uptime > 99,99%? What do you think?
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Replication is important to prevent data loss. While 99.99% uptime might make this less of a concern if an issue does occur either with your droplet or with the GlusterFS daemon or networking on your droplet the issue would be much more serious without it.