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,…

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

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.

[Bild] 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 th…

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.

[Bild] 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?

[Bild] 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 Commu…

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

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 4. Dezember 2017 um 05:17 7

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

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

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