# Is it useless to have a hot, warm, and cold nodes running on the same server?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-useless-to-have-a-hot-warm-and-cold-nodes-running-on-the-same-server/390977>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** docker, ilm-index-lifecycle-management\
**Created:** [October 13, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-useless-to-have-a-hot-warm-and-cold-nodes-running-on-the-same-server/390977 "2026-10-13T12:17:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![YousefNein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yousefnein/32/145549_2.png) [@YousefNein](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/YousefNein)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-it-useless-to-have-a-hot-warm-and-cold-nodes-running-on-the-same-server/390977/1 "2026-10-13T12:17:57Z")

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Like the title suggests. I saw that in the ILM policy, it says that it's recommended to move the data to warm nodes.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/f/2fd45bdb6cf6e0d593f395409afad279510383c3.png)

So I made a Docker container dedicated to a warm node to move my data into, but the hot data and the warm data are on the same server. So is that setup useless?

Kindly share a reference related to this, because I haven't found anything exactly related to this.

Thank you.