Tag: Storage

Logical volume management (LVM) is a powerful storage administration framework that abstracts the physical layout of storage devices by introducing logical volumes. Taking advantage of the Linux device mapper kernel driver, LVM offers a software version of a storage area network (SAN), allowing for more efficient and flexible storage utilization and management through dynamic resizing and storage allocation.

With businesses transitioning into the cloud, the significance of secure and flexible data storage is becoming increasingly apparent. And while most self-hosted cloud storage solutions may lack functionality, popular proprietary platforms often don’t provide the desired level of transparency and flexibility and may be difficult to integrate into the existing application stack.

Every modern HDD or SDD has an option to monitor its current status and health via SMART attributes. The SMART test can be performed to detect any potential problems with the hardware itself. Tests such as these are run using smartctl. According to the Linux man page, smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform SMART tasks. Examples of these tasks would be printing error logs or enabling and disabling automatic SMART testing. 

Disk space management in dedicated Linux servers with cPanel is an often underestimated necessity. This tutorial shows how to manage disk space in your cPanel dedicated server.

Plesk is among the most popular platforms developers and website admins use to manage their server resources. Disk quotas are an essential aspect of managing resources on dedicated Linux servers. They allow admins to limit the amount of disk space each user can use, ensuring the server remains stable and secure.

Private Cloud Storage is a scalable and redundant storage solution where data is stored on remote servers dedicated to a single customer. Because of this, it is considered more secure than public cloud storage solutions where servers are shared across many customer accounts. The servers powering a private cloud storage solution are also flexible since they can be located virtually anywhere – in your office, your company’s data center, or another company’s data center.

A backup is a duplicate record of computer or server information stored locally on either your computer or server or at an off-site location or separate device. Backups are typically used to restore lost or corrupted data from the secondary location back to the primary generally in the event of a security breach, hardware failure, or natural disaster.

By default, Plesk typically stores backups on the server. This can, however, present a risk if the hard drive or RAID fails on the server. If this ever occurs, you can possibly lose both data and your backups. To avoid this situation, Liquid Web recommends storing additional backups in a remote storage location.

What is RAID?

RAID (or a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a way of storing logical data across a medium which is composed of multiple physical hard disk drives blended into one or more logical units or volumes that is used for data redundancy, performance improvement, and reliability.

Similar to Dropbox and Google Drive, Nextcloud is self-hosting software that allows you to share files, contacts, and calendars. But, unlike Dropbox and Google Drive, your files will be private and stored on your server instead of a third-party server. Nextcloud is a GDPR and HIPAA compliant hosting solution, so your files will be encrypted along with the ability to audit. For this tutorial, we’ll be installing our Nextcloud instance on our Ubuntu VPS server.