Select whether the ECS needs to add an attached hard disk (recommended for the attached disk application project)

A few days ago, Lao Zuo met a netizen and asked me to mount the data disk on his server. When I log in to his ECS, his server defaults to 40GB disk and his data disk purchases 10GB. His goal is to put the website and panel data in the data disk instead of the system disk. Of course, his project is a simple personal website.

In fact, there are many such cases. Maybe these netizens saw some tutorials or some hosting companies guided them to buy. Some host manufacturers automatically add 10 or 20GB data hard disks by default. Therefore, they bought data disks by mistake. Here we are going to discuss this issue, whether ECS needs to add a hard disk.

First, whether the project needs

Lao Zuo also mentioned this problem more or less in his previous articles. If we have a simple personal website just like the student above, and it is estimated that his website does not exceed 5GB at most, why do you buy a mount disk? Go back to your panel+website, and add data. It is estimated that the disk will be expanded later.

It is not necessary to purchase data disks for ordinary projects, but it is also sufficient to directly share the hard disk on the system disk.

Second, the characteristics of the host company

Many host vendors see whether 30GB or 50GB disks are provided in the host parameters, but in fact, the system disk is only 10GB, and the remaining tens of GB of disk space is to mount disks, which we need to mount before we can use. In this case, we must mount it. After all, the system disk is small.

Therefore, after we get the purchased ECS, we need to see if your disk is separate from the system disk and data disk. If so, you need to mount the specified directory.

Third, large project data

If our project data is large. For example, Lao Zuo met a netizen last year, and his project needs a 200GB disk size, which seems to be a micro engine applet. At the beginning, his data was placed on the system disk, and he hoped that the data would be separated to the mount disk. Remember that the intranet for migrating data was full for several hours at that time.

Therefore, if the project data is really large in the future, we should set the mount disk for us at the beginning, so that we can directly expand the capacity when the subsequent data is large. However, some host companies also support the expansion of system disks.

The above is Lao Zuo's question about whether he needs to purchase a mount disk when buying ECS. Let's see our actual needs. For those that are not available or entry-level, use the system disk first.