The discussion revolves around whether Discourse goes offline or sleeps from time to time. asugar has observed this phenomenon on two self-hosted Discourse forums, where the site appears to be unresponsive for a few minutes before suddenly loading. They suspect it might be related to their hosting setup on Digital Ocean droplets. RGJ and maiki have responded with questions to help troubleshoot the issue, including the size of the droplets and the possibility of checking server logs to determine what’s happening. However, maiki notes that Discourse itself doesn’t have a “sleep” feature, suggesting that the issue might be related to the hosting environment.
I’ve observed that if a self hosted discourse forum is not accessed for a while then it kinds of sleeps. It has happened to me many times on different forums. I can see the loading progress showing but it doesn’t load. Then after sometime, and accessing it from different browsers, it somehow wakes up.
I’ve observed it on two different self hosted discourse forums so it can’t be some temporary issue. There is certainly a pattern.
I host both on Digital Ocean droplets. I’m not sure if it has anything to do with DO? Mentioned DO just in case…
Few minutes, 2-5 minutes or something. But the important point is that I don’t know how long it was sleeping? May be few days? May be few minutes/hours?
Size of droplets, Not sure what you meant by that? CPU? Disk? RAM? It is with decent capacity.
No I haven’t observed it with any other forum including this forum.
