I already have a server for one of my communities, using Hetzner Cloud. Since I’m just starting out, there’s not enough traffic yet and even when it starts growing, the initial traffic will not be enough that justifies 2 servers. I wanted to spend some time building the community without having to…

From what I can make out of this is that You’re knees deep into overthinking your setup. Fundamentally, You shouldn’t be pursuing the 1000 brilliant new community ideas you have all at once by spinning up as many new discourse (and by extension any other software) instances. community building is …

Thanks again for the feedback. I understand what you mean, and trust me, if I were to build all the communities I needed for everything I’m involved in, we wouldn’t be talking about 4-5, but more like 15. I was able to end up with 3 that seem to be really important and should be built now. At this…

Then I’ll wish you luck, sir! All the best for your new adventure.

Hello friends and happy new year! This is a timely topic for me as I am just in the process of adjusting my own setup to save some time and money. I have three small private sites that all get very little traffic but they are all important to me. I also want to be able to spin up more sites to test…

[image] tobiaseigen: that I want to use direct delivery email for all of my sites, using the site’s domain name as the email domain name so it is easily recognized and trusted by site members Your can do that but only if they all use the same smtp credentials. Since your new hetzner is so mu…

[image] pfaffman: just 1gb of ram The cx23 has 4gb ram. I’m moving my other two sites to their separate cx23 servers so we’ll see how this plays out, but my feeling is it will be a-ok. [image] pfaffman: only if they all use the same smtp credentials. I am confused by this as mail-rece…

[image] tobiaseigen: I am confused by this as mail-receiver is just about receiving email and there are no smtp credentials. No. Mail receiver is separate. If you’re using multisite, then there is just one YML file and that’s where the SMTP sending credentials are set. If you’re using mail re…

Right. That makes sense. And I think would be fine for me using mailgun. I will understand all of this better if and when I start setting up a multisite!

[image] itsbhanusharma: You’ll first have to decide whether you want a single multisite or a single server hosting multiple standalone sites. Jumping in because I’m in a similar situation as @alltiagocom — I’ve got discourse installed on a smallish Hetzner server for my main community but hav…

Multisite would definitely be less maintenance overhead so less headaches but YMMV

One server for 2 Discourse communities?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) January 7, 2026, 6:29pm 50

It took me much longer than I care to admit to (mostly) figure it out!

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