Question Store mail data in S3

[isanborak]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.43.1

Hello,

Currently, I use Plesk for mail server in aws, now storage is grow really fast larger and larger I plan to save storage cost to move all data to S3.

Is it possible to configure, move, and store all mail data to aws S3?

 

[IgorG]

Try to change mail data location with the help of this KB article: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/...ault-location-of-mailboxes-in-Plesk-for-Linux

 

[marcelhalls]

Is it possible to mount s3 on Plesk to store mailboxes without performance loss or risk of data corruption?

how is the performance? satisfactory?

I'm seriously thinking about doing this, the cost drops drastically and if it's stable it gives great security using S3 snapshots

 

[ChristophRo]

Yes, you can mount an s3 bucket on Ubuntu with s3fs and move the mail folders there.

Performance of an object storage like s3 is obviously magnitudes slower than regular block storage.
Depending on your use case, this may be noticeable or not.

Just keep in mind, that Amazon s3 is not only billed/limited per space usage, but also in the number of get/put (i.e. read/write) requests.
And a mail service can pull off quite some IOPs if you have more than a handful of users...