Our Discourse site has more than 10k users and about 700 daily engaged users. users sending an average of 10k posts per day. our community has more than 160k pageviews/day including crawlers and anonymous users. Almost all of our users are connected to us via mobile devices. We ran community in sta…

It could very well be, but I would first try to scale anything that can scale horizontally, horizontally. It will also give you a much better idea of where your bottleneck is. Most performance issues can be solved by simply throwing more resources against the problem. The hard part is doing that in…

Thanks for your expertise and friendly advice, I will definitely read about how to implement this. another question I have is what settings should be applied in the app for the specifications I mentioned above. (24 CPU cores with 32gb of ram) Are the current settings appropriate or is it better to …

Hard to say without inspecting the system and see what is going on. Since you said the most issues happen when submitting a post, the issue is probably with database writes and I don’t think increasing shared buffers any further will be of much help, but you could try. I’ve seen it cranked up to ov…

You don’t mention using it so that’s why I think, the first thing I would do is adding a CDN this would reduce a lot of weight from the VPS as the bigger requests would not touch the server. Adding to the CDN, I would also go with S3-like storage that would allow you to scale differently the storag…

Thanks @marianord , Unfortunately, we do not use CDN. The upload rate in our forum is not very high. Most of the time, users talk about various subjects. For example, in the last year, we had about 2.8 million posts and 2.7 million likes, but only 25gb of files are uploaded. Do you think that accord…

CDN and S3 are two different things. S3 offloads the files and backups to another server that is managed by a cloud provider (really high level summary) CDN caches the statics files of your server (images, JS, CSS) to server from multiple servers (PoP) around the globe to speed up the loading of t…

[image] marianord: you’re reducing the amount of requests that get to your server therefore reducing the load A request for a static file does not have a large impact on the overall server load. The requests for dynamic content are the heavy ones. [image] marianord: It’s a lot easier to …

True, but Discourse has a few exceptions, like stylesheets that are served by ruby, so having a caching CDN means those requests doesn’t use up the unicorn processes. Regarding the OP problem, the first thing needed is having someone knowledgeable do some performance analysis during peak hours and …

[image] RGJ: Why are you talking about json files in a CDN context? I’m saying that the JSON requests will hit the server, the static ones won’t.

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) August 31, 2020, 3:58pm 9

I disagree with @marianord. I don’t think that a CDN would make a noticeable difference with respect to the load on your server.
These are just static files and they are not heavy to serve at all.

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