We’re running a bigger Discourse installation on a VPS setup that basically works very well for us. In terms of CPU/Mem performance we have headroom. Disk space though is a bit of an issue - not in the day to day business but when it comes to upgrading Postgres for example (the 13->15 Upgrade is out…

If your goal is to do the upgrade the easiest thing is to spin up a new vm and migrate to it. You skip the need to upgrade the database and you get a new os on your vm, which you likely need to do anyway. Follow Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync and don’t copy the database (but yes up…

Actually this is not an option. It’s not running out of space for day to day needs anyways. Also we’re on a 600gb drive space right now and using ~50%. There is not a bigger option - at least not on Hetzner. That’s why i explicitly was asking for the external drive.

Have you performed a ./launcher cleanup app out of interest? Has that not released enough space to perform the upgrade in place?

should that matter for a rebuild? For a simple restart I’d understand but for a rebuild?

I wasn’t suggesting to switch to a bigger drive, just get a new server exactly like that one. Install Discourse, restore your database. [이미지] Robert: Have you performed a ./launcher cleanup app That’s a very good question. [이미지] Helmi: should that matter for a rebuild? Yes. Every reb…

For the database upgrade you need all the space you can get. So yes. I would say important.

[이미지] Helmi: Is there any way that works for these kind of cases? Our update guide includes a guide for your exact use case [이미지] PostgreSQL 15 update Doing a manual update / space constrained environments If you are in a constrained space environment without any way to get more space you…

If you’re on a VM, it’s much, much easier to just move to a new one, and there are many benefits. Here are a few: zero risk–if something goes wrong, you still have your old server zero downtime (just read-only on the old server) you get the OS upgrade that you probably need anyway you can verify t…

Appreciate your advise guys. [이미지] Falco: We added this option for people who in the same situation as you. Just be sure to store a backup offsite before trying this! Thanks, thats the other option that I said I’m aware of. Thanks anyways for pointing it out. [이미지] Jay Pfaffman: If you’…

It can be handy to keep your uploads, or, say /var/discourse/shared/web_only on network storage. You need to edit the yml file to point to it rather than use a symlink (the symlink doesn’t work because the container can’t access the place that your symlink points to. Then if you do move to a new vm…

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Appreciate your advise guys.

Thanks, thats the other option that I said I’m aware of. Thanks anyways for pointing it out.

Not doubting that - still would have loved to explore the option of adding additional storage for maintenance tasks if needed.

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