please share your expert advise on choosing between DO & Vultr. I am on DO, with 2gb RAM, 12$ plan, smtp has been a major issue. I can’t move ahead. Googling shows vultr is competetive, not sure about smtp issue.. how are your experiences, server needs to be down here in australasia.

my original post was about smtp, a separate problem. now I wanted to know if vultr is as good as DO. DO had marketplace to install discourse. - a separate curiosity. unfortunately :face_with_peeking_eye: these were linked.

It has been a couple years since I tried Vultr but then it worked fine. No complaints there. It was not with Discourse but web related stuff still. Just to throw another option: Upcloud has Sydney location and there are instructions about ports and port 25 . No affiliation to upcloud. I have couple…

I’m on Vultr too, and have no complaints. It’s been a while since I configured email for Discourse – I recall it being a bit tricky, but no issues specific to Vultr. They didn’t have blocked ports that couldn’t be opened or anything.

Just mentioning — DO marketplace version of Discourse has quite bad reputation. Or had, I don’t know what is nowaday situation. But when using that you get (or got) here quite easily an answer that one isn’t a supported install.

honestly, several search results said that, not to go with marketplace. Me being me, looked for easy install like php admin.

The irony here is that a supported standard install takes about 20 mins to set most of it up, the only really annoyingly tricky and time consuming setup is … email :slight_smile: … so the marketplace install is probably not winning you much efficiency … and getting familiar with the command line bui…

" The certificate files are zero bytes (dobato.au.cer and dobato.au_ecc.cer have size 0). This means Let’s Encrypt failed to download the actual certificates. " - issue with vultr, keeps repeating. I dont think I like vultr now.

what i see as the problem here is that you are somewhat hesitant to spend some time debugging and learning how to fix your install. rather than say you don’t like this or that host server and switch to a new one every time you hit an issue, you would be best served to figure out the issue and fix i…

[image] abeen: google says better find Sydney based server, everyone talked abt DO, stop using google to solve this. it’s not helping you. honestly, unless you have legal reasons for doing otherwise, you can use a cloud server anywhere. i’m in Canada and i have sites hosted in EU.

you may be right, i was looking at simple installation, like phpadmin. I will go through the guide. thanks

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abeen June 4, 2026, 6:56pm 34

thanks Don. I have a new site, sticking with DO for now.

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