Question Can Plesk use a Spare NVMe Drive for anything?

[Stuart]

Hi there,

I recently picked up an i3.xlarge EC2 instance as I wanted as much RAM as I could for the least amount of $ as we are testing the best configs / setups for Moodle.

The i3 instances come with large capacity NVMe drives as standard (950GB in this case) but due to the fact they are not EBS configured, the data is ephemeral, i.e., does not survive a stop / start cycle and therefor is no good for /home directories or databases etc.

It seems a shame to have 950GB of blazing fast NVMe storage sat there doing nothing, is there a way to get Plesk to use this storage as a cache drive or in some other useful way? I have EBS storage for the OS / Plesk etc...

Any advice is appreciated, I have Googled this to death but can only find items on NGINX / Apache caching in the docs.

Thanks,

Stuart

 

[Hex]

picked up an i3.xlarge EC2 instance

You picked the wrong Type with unnecessary options to run Plesk.

Here is Plesk recommendation:

Installing Plesk on Amazon EC2

Provided Product Configurations See Plesk configurations available on AWS. Choosing the Type of Amazon Instance P...

docs.plesk.com