Block Storage

How To Move an Apache Web Root to a New Location on Debian 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Move an Apache Web Root to a New Location on Debian 8

On Debian 8, the Apache2 web server stores its documents in /var/www/html by default. This directory is located on the root filesystem with the rest of the operating system. You may want to move the document root to another location, such as a separate mounted filesystem. In this guide, you’ll move the Apache document root to a new location by moving the files and changing Apache’s configuration files.

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How To Store Gitea Repositories on a Separate Volume — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Store Gitea Repositories on a Separate Volume

Gitea is a popular source code management service that hosts your Git repositories. While those repositories can safely be stored on the same disk running Gitea itself, external storage solutions such as block storage or networked file storage can help keep costs down when it comes to hardware requirements and allow for easier back-up and restore. This tutorial walks you through the steps of storing your Gitea repositories on a separate block storage volume.

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Object Storage vs. Block Storage Services — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Object Storage vs. Block Storage Services

Flexible and scalable data storage is a baseline requirement for most applications and services being developed today. With today’s complex deployments, containers, and ephemeral infrastructure, the days of simply saving files to disk on a single server are gone. Cloud providers have developed services to fill the storage needs of modern application deployments, and they mostly fit into two categories: object storage, and block storage.

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