We do exactly this, but we keep our site code including plugins in github and the images in EFS. I would really like to see some recommendations on dealing with the Linux stat issue over NFS.
My entire company was waiting on 32G, we run a simulation that chokes on 16G. Now everyone is trying to figure out what is the best non-Mac to do the job.
Not surprising. DO is an epic scam. Their systems were designed by incompetent engineers and the CEO and his brother are both Coke heads. I can't even begin to tell you how many single points of failure there are in their platform.