Hello, I am currently running a forum with approximately: • 800,000 topics • Around 12,000 daily active users • Hosted on a dedicated server with 64GB RAM I am considering migrating to Discourse and would like to understand: 1. At this scale, would Discourse require any special customization or…

[image] jack222: Is a single 64GB dedicated server generally sufficient? Depends on your disk performance. If your disk is too slow (IOPS) and your database can’t be cached in memory for most operations, it can quickly become a bottleneck. [image] jack222: At this scale, would Discours…

Our forum generates approximately 400,000 page views per day.

Because users have a very high search frequency, and considering there are 800,000 topics, I am wondering whether some customized search solution might be necessary.

I think that’s enough hardware. I don’t think you need to customize search. There are Discourse sites with millions of topics.

Rein aus Neugier, würde mich mal interessieren. Auf welcher Software läuft dein Forum derzeit also wovon wirst du eine Migration durchführen?

Hello, it is currently running on a privately developed PHP-based system. However, I believe Discourse would be more suitable and efficient for our needs, and its maintenance team appears to be very professional. Therefore, we are considering migrating to Discourse.

[image] jack222: and its maintenance team appears to be very professional. Not wanting to appear over-praising, but yes, they are. Solid ethics (rare enough to be emphasized), solid skills, well-maintained software, always moving forward rather than falling behind on outdated technologies, a…

I truly feel the same — it’s always moving forward and never standing still.

Migration question – 800k topics, 12k DAU

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 26, 2026, 6:57pm 2

That’s likely more than enough. How many daily pageviews do you have?

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