I followed the tutorial below which got me up and running quickly and simply on Linode (something I was also able to do, but with much more difficulty on DigitalOcean). Through searching on this forum I became aware of a general bias toward Digital Ocean. Notwithstanding this, getting a Discourse up nd running on Linode turned out to be more simple (perhaps only due to this concise Youtube Tutorial…) [TechHut The Surprisingly Easy Way to Install Discourse with Free SSL] I am agnostic about Discourse hosting providers, except that (of course in addition to value for my dollar) I lean toward any platform that can SIMPLIFY things for me as a novice dev. I do through my research on this forum recall the Devs here generally advising in support of D.O for (perhaps among other things) potential security advantages. Currently I am happily running a development and testing instance of Discourse on Linode (with essentially no traffic) on a 2 GB RAM and 50 GB Disk for $12.50/monthly (including their backup option), and would very much appreciate any current analysis or advisement upon which platform to deploy a production Discourse instance best optimized for (potential) scalability?

[image] denvergeeks: Through searching on this forum I became aware of a general bias toward Digital Ocean. There’s no bias per-se. DigitalOcean is recommended for newcomers as it keeps the learning curve shallow. If you opt for a more complex environment then in turn you accept the added complexity it introduces, that’s all. All of these providers scale pretty well. It really depends on the specific community and their rate of growth as to the best fit.

Linode was acquired by Akamai in early 2022. In many cases this spells doom for the smaller company in terms of service and pricing. It will happen over many years but it will undoubtedly happen. Note how they don’t compare DO or Vultr in this calculator. This is disingenuous. They are comparing apples and oranges as the large scale cloud providers offer a ton more services as part of their offering beyond compute and storage. I’m still looking to recommend a cloud provider that offers one click installs of popular packages like discourse and n8n. Most of them still make you do a lot of stuff manually rather than automate the install and update process completely.

[image] Alex Sirota: I’m still looking to recommend a cloud provider that offers one click installs of popular packages like discourse Actually, I think one-clicks on pure VPS hosting providers are a bit of a curse? If you don’t learn some of the basics during the process of installing and setting up your own instatiation of the standard install, then you are surely at greater risk not being able to understand or support your own install going forward? One-clicks for Discourse make much more sense on managed hosting?

[image] Robert: If you don’t learn some of the basics during the process of installing and setting up your own instatiation of the standard install, then you are surely at greater risk not being able to understand or support your own install going forward? If you have to be a Linux system admin to install and maintain Discourse then we have lost the battle for wider adoption. I look directly at WordPress for enabling huge adoption due to their famous “5 minute” install. The cloud providers even have started to offer WordPress as part of their managed services. In general admin features should be built into the UI of the systems (plugin install I’m looking at you).

[image] Alex Sirota: If you have to be a Linux system admin to run these systems then we have lost the battle for wider adoption. No-one is stopping third parties and CDCK themselves offering one-click setup as part of their managed hosting? If you want to save money and go the self-install route, you have to bring a willingness to learn some basics to get things done. I believe the standard install is also an incredible educational tool and door opener.

[image] Robert: No-one is stopping third parties and CDCK themselves offering one-click setup? They won’t do it until the underlying technology improves so that all administration can be done in the UI. They are loath to take on support of these systems until it makes economic sense for them to do so. Maybe Discourse will get to critical mass to be one of the one click install deals via dockerhub. That’s where I have seen cloud providers innovate but it’s still not nearly the level of where shared hosting is.

[image] Alex Sirota: They won’t do it They already have? Just look at Communiteq’s homepage for an example? If you are looking at a VPS host spawning interface, you are already a different class of customer?

[image] denvergeeks: I am agnostic about Discourse hosting providers This topic gives an overview of vps providers with good offers to run Discourse: [image] Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters Sysadmins This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up and running with as little fiddling as possible. You should be able to create an account, and a server on which to run your Discourse instance and still be able to pull the job off in very close to 30 minutes. I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Di…

[image] Alex Sirota: They won’t do it until the underlying technology improves so that all administration can be done in the UI. I do it. My dashboard will create a digital ocean droplet (with plans to support other VM providers) and install there or use any capable VM that you set up and can add an ssh key to (and doesn’t have Plesk). I am not aware of a way to do an automated install on a VM that has Plesk installed.

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Rukou October 5, 2022, 12:55pm 3

Thanks for the video. I actually opted in for vultr.com as I already had a server that I was repurposing.

They also provided a great tutorial. How to Install Discourse on Ubuntu 20.04 - Complete Guide | Vultr Docs

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