Disk space
The amount disk space required for a Magnolia instance depends on what data you store and how many versions of content you keep. Today, marketing oriented websites use a lot of images and video. It is not uncommon for such a website to have 5-10 GB of Web content.
Best practice
We recommend that you allocate at least 50GB of disk space for an author instance and 25GB for a public instance.
Example calculation
| What takes space? | GB |
|---|---|
Total website content including assets such as images and videos. |
5 |
Magnolia and Tomcat systems. |
0.5 |
Cached content, assuming cache is 70% full. |
3.5 |
Site is served in two languages. The other language is also cached. |
3.5 |
Content is indexed for search. A compressed index is 20% of the original data size. |
1 |
Logs: access, audit, error |
5 |
Temporary storage for streaming large files |
5 |
Total for a public instance |
23.5 |
Versioning on author instance, assuming 30% of content is versioned 20 times. |
30 |
Total for an author instance |
53.5 |
Adjust the numbers to your needs.
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Is your site smaller?
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Is your database on the same machine as the application server? You can also persist data to a remote database.
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Have you switched off versioning?
There are many options for reducing the space required. However, assume that you need up to 50 GB of space out of the box.