Digital Ocean made some big changes today! Check out the new price list. First, 1 GB droplet is now only $5/month! Also, very good news for people with high volume sites, the fast CPU offerings now have reasonable amounts of SSD space. [image] Also new are “flexible droplets” that make it easy to switch between difference configurations to see what difference it makes to have more RAM, or more CPUs: [image] If you’ve got a 1GB droplet, you’ll likely want to shutdown, switch to the new 2GB droplet, and re-run discourse-setup to take advantage of the additional memory. Downgrading from the old 1GB $10/month droplet to the new $5 one is more complicated because there’s less disk space, so you can’t just change. To do that, a safe path would be to create the new droplet, copy your old app.yml, rebuild, backup and restore your site to the new one and point to the new site.

[image] xiasummer: While digitalocean only have droplets located in US. This is not correct they have 10-12 data centers all over the world.

Also Digital Ocean is going to be providing “per-second billing” soon. I’m not exactly sure about the benefits of this. Source: DigitalOcean gives you more RAM and storage for the same price | TechCrunch Cloud hosting company DigitalOcean is launching some new price offerings today. In particular, the company is also upgrading its basic $5 droplet Est. reading time: 2 minutes

This way if you need an instance for a few hours, you are only billed for a few hours rather than a whole day. Or even 15 minutes.

For me the most important feature to come is true private networking. This means for example that if you are running the database in a separate vm the communication goes through a isolated network. Right now in DigitalOcean the internal networking is shared. VPC | DigitalOcean Documentation A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private network interface for collections of DigitalOcean resources. VPC networks provide a more secure connection …

No Doubt, I am very happy with this step. DigitalOcean has taken a great step by providing their services in cheaper rates. DO has one of the most affordable infrastructures with good quality of service. It is beneficial for both developers and startups because they can now get a production server in just $5, Even if they don’t know how to manage the servers, They can head to Cloudways, As they have also reduced the pricing on DigitalOcean server.

[image] Exploring the $15 options for a moderately small community (up to 5k people, 500 new messages per day, 500k visits per month), the 2 vCPUs with 2GB RAM option looks better than the others two taking into account the specifics of the Discourse application? I.e., a) 1GB is too little of memory; b) 3GB RAM vs 2GB RAM won’t make too much of a difference; you’ll have a ~2GB swap; and c) 2 vCPUs is definitely better than 1 vCPUs taking into account multitasking built into Discourse. Do my arguments look right?

2/2 seems like the best choice there.

I’m currently using this package from them with Discourse Version v2.0.0.beta2 +72 / 2.0.0.beta2 [DOpackage] And experiencing high memory usage with only me on Discourse: [memoryUsageDiscourse] Any advice on troubleshooting this? Edit: Upgraded to 4GB Memory and added a 2GB swap file. Memory usage is still around 50% though

Is there any problem with this high memory usage? :slight_smile: Free memory is wasted memory – the setup script intentionally tunes Discourse and Postgres to use the available memory to speed up request processing.

Thanks for your reply! I’ll just keep an eye on it

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FYI, this thread was started back in 2018.

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