I'm planning to order an AMD/Emsim with 20GB. The entire server will be used by one Web site. Let's say I run out of disk space sometime in the future, I suppose I could add another 20GB. The question is will the Web site see the additional disk space? I'm not sure how the Web server treats another physical drive.

Originally posted by Bee
I'm planning to order an AMD/Emsim with 20GB. The entire server will be used by one Web site. Let's say I run out of disk space sometime in the future, I suppose I could add another 20GB. The question is will the Web site see the additional disk space? I'm not sure how the Web server treats another physical drive.

You need to mount the new drive. Then the drive (or partition to be exact) will appear as a new directory in your filesystem. You need to arrange your content in both drives and set up your web server configuration accortingly.

For example, if your site has a directory /foo that contains a lot of file, you can move the foo directory to the new drive, then set an alias to this directory. That way your visitors will not see the change.

There are other ways that can combine two drives into one bigger partition, but it will require reformat to both drives.

Sounds like it is possible but not straight forward. Guess I should just order a box with a bigger drive to begin with. Thanks!