I’m planning on making a discourse server, and at the moment I’m having trouble deciding whether to deploy it on Heroku or Digital Ocean. I know that for Heroku I would have to do all the of the setup work whereas Digital Ocean has a one click install. However, I’ve never used a one-click install an…

We strongly recommend you use the Docker based install as it is the only one we can support.

For development purposes, would the small digital ocean droplet size suffice for the docker image? (512 mb ram, 1 cpu)

If you even read the docs a tiny bit you will discover the answer to that question.

I did, it said “The default of 1 GB RAM works fine for small Discourse communities,” but would any less cause issues if I was only setting up the forum for testing?

The one-click install is convenient and will work , but for dev purposes, the one-click DO is an overkill. This is the reason why I chose the lesser DO droplet, and manually installed the app from there. So far, community is doing fine, but noticed it’s a bit sluggish since my installation is for p…

[image] ROODAY: My main concerns are that I already have another webapp that has a PostgreSQL database that contains users’ emails and passwords. I’d like to be able to import those emails and passwords into the discourse database so that users will not have to go through the hassle of making a …

[image] ROODAY: I’d also like to set up English and French localization (does Discourse support i18n?) Discourse is fully translated in :flag_fr: thanks to the hard work of the translators :wink:

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Discourse is fully translated in thanks to the hard work of the translators

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