Hi, we’re considering migrating from our current forum software to self hosted Discourse, and I’m interested in some anecdotal evidence regarding possible resource requirements. Our forum has been running for about 20 years, containing 560,000 posts in 37,000 threads. New posts are created at a r…

I think I’ve got a site with similar traffic on an 8gb droplet that I think used to serve about 1M pageviews/month [immagine] HansHübner: By “two-container setup” you mean what is described in this howto post Yes, but there’s a switch for discourse-setup that will do it on install. (I think …

I’d start with a two-container setup with assets on S3 and CDN in front of the site and the S3 bucket. I’d start with 8GB or 16GB of RAM, perhaps depending on what you’re using right now. How many pageviews do you get in a day and/or month? If that’s not enough, you could add a load balancer and m…

[immagine] pfaffman: I’d start with a two-container setup with assets on S3 and CDN in front of the site and the S3 bucket. I’d start with 8GB or 16GB of RAM, perhaps depending on what you’re using right now. By “two-container setup” you mean what is described in this howto post and assets in…

Thank you, Jay! Much appreciated.

[immagine] HansHübner: would that make all uploads publicly accessible or is there a mechanism that makes it possible to restrict access to uploads based on permissions in Discourse? You might be interested in [immagine] Secure Uploads megaphoneAnnouncements …

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