Our forum underwent a large infrastructure change and now it’s not performing well. I migrated the database to be a managed database at digitalocean, I put S3 assets on a minio instance with cloudflare in front of it. I also re-deployed the discourse with a smaller vm but still enough resources to…

[afbeelding] Eviepayne: underwent a large infrastructure change and now it’s not performing well. I migrated the database to be a managed database at digitalocean so reverse that? though perhaps others have tried this and will chime in with tips to improve that kind of setup.

Why is this unsupported? discourse has the options in the app.yml for external databases? I’m trying to scale a large server.

My bad, let me remove that for now :+1:

[afbeelding] Eviepayne: I migrated the database to be a managed database at digitalocean How close is the managed database to your instance? Are they in the same network?

yeah the server is also DO. right now im going to do a bone-stock install with the supported guide and import the database I’ll see what happens then.

Is there a way to manually run those database migrations?

[afbeelding] Eviepayne: I also re-deployed the discourse with a smaller vm but still enough resources to handle the load. But it sounds like your postgres server isn’t enough to handle the load? How big is your database? How much ram does your postgres server have? [afbeelding] Eviepayne: …

Even a simple bare install isn’t working haven’t even restored the database at all. did a discourse-setup on a clean VM, and the registration isn’t working. Attempted to restore via commandline and discourse restore doesn’t list the backups. Edit: worked after a second complete rebuild.

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renato (Renato Atilio) 29 maart 2025 om 17:33 6

How close is the managed database to your instance? Are they in the same network?

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