Current problem:
- we have a single web server that hosts a website with user generated content
- the server constantly needs more upgrades to keep up with the storage space
- it's hard to make changes without temporarily disabling the website
Idea to fix these problems:
- add a file server that is responsible for storing all data (it provides a shared remote directory and a remote MySQL server)
- add two web servers that each access the file server
- one web server will be used as a development environment (with optional access to the production data)
- the other will be used as a production environment
- when the development server works as intended the changes will be added to the production server
All three servers will run their applications as docker containers.
Is this a good idea or are there flaws? I'd be thankful for feedback.
