Best hosting for discourse?

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The discussion revolves around finding the best hosting option for a Discourse community with 10,000 daily visitors, a budget of $20-25/month, and a requirement of at least 50GB storage.

Jay91 initially asked for advice and received suggestions from zogstrip to consider Communiteq or self-hosting on a VPS. However, Jay91 was concerned about the storage offered by Communiteq.

Several users, including fefrei, pfaffman, and anon1494039, recommended exploring VPS options from providers like Digital Ocean, UpCloud, Contabo, and Scaleway. tophee also suggested using Amazon S3 storage to complement a VPS with less storage.

Jay91 inquired about Scaleway’s resources, and ljpp mentioned that “10,000 visits” doesn’t reveal much about resource needs, emphasizing the importance of users’ behavioral patterns. dax shared their experience with Scaleway, highlighting its affordability and reliability.

Other users, such as wildrobo and Chopper, recommended Communiteq and OVH, respectively. Ultimately, the discussion emphasized the importance of considering various factors, including storage, performance, and support, when choosing a hosting provider for a Discourse community.

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Hello,

I’m here to ask about best hosting I can host my discourse community on.
a hosting can handle 10,000 daily visits as users and price range from $20 - 25/Mo. with good storage space 50Gb gonna be good.

Please advice me.

Thanks.

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Either www.Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) or self-host on a VPS.

3

Thanks for your reply, the hosting is good but the offered storage is small for my budget , any other options ?

4

Within that budget, you probably won’t find a better managed hosting provider, so you will most likely have to go for…

5

That is fine, i didn’t mention anything about managed so that is fine, as long as i have the storage i want as indicated in my post with ability to handle that amount of visitors daily.
( 10,000 visitor.).

Any ideas for VPS with these specifications?

Thanks.

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You can start with a $20/month digital ocean droplet. You might need to bump it up to a $40 if things get slow.

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Thanks Jay,

The $20 is good fits with my budget, but can this plan handle that number of visitors i mentioned ? or this depends on other factors ?

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If storage is your bottleneck, you might also consider using Amazon S3 storage to complement a VPS with less storage. Discourse cones with built in support for storing user uploads on S3.

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You could check out : https://www.upcloud.com/pricing/

They have awesome performance, good support.

Only Downside: No DDoS Protection, YET (Its on the roadmap)

Or in germany: Contabo🥇Cloud VPS & Dedicated Servers for a Price You'll Love

^^Dont know details about them though, but WITH DDoS Protection.

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That is clear enough, do you have any ideas about scaleway ?
they have:
8 Dedicated x86 64bit Cores
16GB Memory
50GB SSD Disk

I’m good with the storage, but can these computing resources handle the 10,000 visits everyday ?

thanks

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i will have look on these, Thanks A lot.

12

Uhm, what?? They are offering 4 Cores, 12 GB RAM (sic!) and 300GB SSD storage for 9 EUR per month?? Sounds too good to be true, TBH.

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I heard that yesterday already but its true :slight_smile:

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Are you using one of their plans? If so, please report your experience (perhaps start a new topic, like there is one for other providers).

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I dont have one of their plans but i know someone on Discord who has their 8 bucks a month plan.

He never had severe issues once a downtime that was critical and unplanned which he got informed about right after it happened.

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@tophee please tell me if those computing resources are able to handle the 10,000 visits everyday from scaleway.

8 Dedicated x86 64bit Cores
16GB Memory
50GB SSD Disk

!!

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I am unable to answer this question but there are plenty of topics discussing similar questions. Try

https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=visits%20%23hosting

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Thanks A lot, i will check that.

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www.Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) → Great service, very responsive, highly recommend. If you are concerned about specifics, you should reach out to them. They will probably be able to help or provide guidance.

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Mine : https://www.ovh.com/fr/vps/vps-ssd.xml

VPS SSD 3

KVM OpenStack
2 vCores
2,4 GHz
8 Go RAM
SSD 40 Go
Local Raid 10
~15 € HT/month