I am ready to pay DigitalOcean $6 / month for their 1GB / 25GB plan. But I keep reading that Discourse won’t be able to be able to perform on such low specs.

Yeah… But I assume that andrew won’t be sending too many emails, there are some providers giving generous free plans for low-volume sending.

I’m on 2GB/1vcpu by DO with small community (<1000 users, just few new topics/replies per day, handful chat messages, most bots are forbidden) and I’m close to low memory all the time meaning ~90% is in use. I haven’t had any issues because of that, though. And I know unused RAM is the most expensi…

It’s hard to define if a community is small or not solely by the total of users. What matters is the number of simultaneously active users, 'cause that’s what primarily gives pressure on your server. Codinghorror gave some key numbers to consider in this post. [image] What i…

If you have a small community with just a few users it works just fine. You’ll run out of disk space after you’ve rebuilt a few times and will need to do a launcher cleanup frequently. I prefer the $12/month with 50gb, but you an resize later with just a few minutes of down time.

Indeed, there’s no hard limit to number of users or amount of activity - it’s just that the forum will be slower to load and refresh as it starts to struggle with memory. And on the topic of memory, you should expect your RAM to be used. You will have swap, and that too will be used, and that’s one…

There are some free email services I’m pretty sure, or ones that offer things such as free 2000 emails per month or something, there are choices out there, just some of them are lesser known.

I have a low-use forum, and with fairly active management found I could work within the cheapest ($5/month - thanks @pfaffman for the correction!) DO plan - but I did need to download all automatic backups and then delete them from the DO server every time I updated Discourse software (which was qui…

[image] Paul King: I could work within the 5gb I think you mean $5, not 5gb. :wink:

That’s amazing news - thanks for sharing.

Is the 6$ DO droplet enough?

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the smallest droplet runs fine for me, I have about 8,000 visitors per month and 8,000 page views per day - no issues.

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