Digital Ocean is a recommended provider for Discourse self-hosting. It recently introduced a $15 / mo plan. Compare it to $10 and $20 plans that were there and are still an option: [image] It is interesting that the $15 option has 3GB Memory, which is +1GB compared to the $20 option. Vice-versa,…

Usually, the best plan is to go as cheap as you can then upgrade whenever you hit a limit (CPU, storage, or transfer). Resizing droplets is really easy, so unless you need more of something, save yourself $5-10 bucks a month until you do.

[image] mpalmer: What’s your current bottleneck? Without knowing that, it’s impossible to say which dimension needs to be expanded. I believe my bottleneck is the budget. The forum itself has been running smoothly so far. I’m trying to understand whether I can go down from $20 to $15. In t…

Multiple CPUs is mostly about concurrent requests. So if you don’t tend to have a lot of active logged in users at the same time – if your CPU usage is low overall – dropping down to 1 CPU and increasing memory (more cache, etc) could be a fine tradeoff.

[image] codinghorror: So if you don’t tend to have a lot of active logged in users at the same time It’s up to 30 users accessing the website simultaneously. Is it “a lot” or not really for a single CPU in terms of processing requests to Discourse?

Again you can just look at your CPU graph, why ask me this question when you can look at the data.

[image] meglio: I believe my bottleneck is the budget. On a side note, considering how successful your community is and the value it brings to its participants, you really should look into monetizing it with Patreon, a paywalled section or something similar. Start a new topic for that in Comm…

Digital Ocean $15 vs $20, what is a better option for Discourse?

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) December 4, 2017, 4:59am 2

What’s your current bottleneck? Without knowing that, it’s impossible to say which dimension needs to be expanded.

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