Problem - DigitalOcean currently provides:

* Auto-Scaling Droplet Pools

* Load Balancers

* Managed Databases

* Block Storage Volumes

However, Droplet storage is locally attached and cannot be shared across droplets.

This prevents customers from building true high-availability, horizontally scalable environments for platforms such as:

* CyberPanel / cPanel hosting

* WordPress / WooCommerce

* Shared hosting platforms

* Any file-dependent PHP or web workload

Even with Load Balancers, users face:

* Filesystem inconsistency

* Plugin / theme sync problems

* Upload duplication

* Session issues

* Expensive & fragile DIY storage workarounds

So today, non-Kubernetes customers cannot scale web workloads reliably.

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Requested Feature - Introduce an option where Auto-Scaling Droplet Pools can use a single shared storage backend:

* One centralized SSD storage layer

* Read-Write-Many capability

* Low latency, optimized for web hosting

* Elastically resizable (adjustable capacity)

* Managed & fault-tolerant

From a customer perspective:

> “Create an auto-scaling pool where every droplet shares the same SSD, instead of each droplet having its own independent disk.”

We don’t need to define the internal technology - just the capability.

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Ideal Stack - When paired with:

* DO Load Balancer

* Managed Database

This enables:

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Why This Matters - This allows users to:

* Run real HA WordPress / WooCommerce

* Build scalable hosting businesses on DO

* Avoid Kubernetes for simpler stacks

* Support large concurrency safely

* Stop leaving DigitalOcean to AWS / GCP for storage needs

Summary - DigitalOcean users need:

> Auto-Scaling Pools + Shared Elastic SSD Storage

This unlocks modern, scalable, reliable hosting without complex custom storage infrastructure.