Continuing the discussion from Upgrade failed spectacularily : [image] Upgrade failed spectacularily And you also need to at times perform an OS upgrade(or create a new server to refresh OS and move Discourse to it) What is the best way to check whether my VPS needs any upgrades, before perfor…

[image] Jonathan5: What is the best way to check whether my VPS needs any upgrades, before performing a Discourse update? If I drew a flowchart to answer, the first question would be something like Do all of the following apply? If so, proceed according to your experience. If not, be sure t…

If you’re running Ubuntu LTS (typically the recommended Distro for Discourse). Each free version edition from my understanding has a 5 year support cycle. [The image depicts the timeline of Ubuntu releases, showcasing their end of legacy support dates for different versions. (Captioned by AI)] So…

Discourse 3.4 is looking for Docker 24.0.7 min It looks like from Google search that Ubuntu 22.04 LTS supports it. [The image displays a Google search result indicating that Docker 24.0.7 is fully supported on Ubuntu 22.04 and can be used without compatibility issues. (Captioned by AI)] It is of…

[image] Dan DeMontmorency: Discourse 3.4 is looking for Docker 24.0.7 min My docker version (20.10.21) is earlier than that and my Discourse version is 3.4.0.beta4-dev. Discourse is telling me to upgrade now to 3.4.0.beta4 – “A critical update is available. Please update!” Two questions: A…

[image] Nate Dhaliwal: I think you can upgrade it when your OS version is out of date, or when Docker is out of date Do you mean “can’t”? I guess so. Do you mean the upgrade script would end gracefully if the requirements aren’t met, without messing up my forum?

[image] Dan DeMontmorency: Discourse 3.4 is looking for Docker 24.0.7 min I’ve just noticed at discourse_docker/launcher at main · discourse/discourse_docker · GitHub docker_min_version='20.10.0' docker_rec_version='24.0.7' So maybe I’m all right for now. I hope that you were wrong about 24…

[image] Jonathan5: My docker version (20.10.21) is earlier than that and my Discourse version is 3.4.0.beta4-dev. Discourse is telling me to upgrade now to 3.4.0.beta4 – “A critical update is available. Please update!” The Docker requirement for Discourse 3.4, I pulled that from a topic with …

[image] Jonathan5: I’ve just noticed at discourse_docker/launcher at main · discourse/discourse_docker · GitHub docker_min_version='20.10.0' docker_rec_version='24.0.7' So maybe I’m all right for now. I hope that you were wrong about 24.0.7 – but maybe I’m looking in the wrong place myself. Co…

[image] Jonathan5: I guess I should update to Ubuntu 24.04 and whatever Docker version comes with that, before upgrading Discourse again. Does that sound right? I would spin up a new VM and move to it as described at Move a Discourse site to another VPS with rsync . If you don’t mind a bunch o…

I think moving from 18.04 to 20.04 I just did it on the same server. Probably following something like How to upgrade your Ubuntu release - Ubuntu Server documentation . I’m not 100% sure. What’s your view on that?

There’s a possible side-benefit to migrating rather than upgrading in place: you might be able to get a better value offering. In my case, switching from x86 to ARM got me a config with more storage for the same price, even with the same hosting service. There’s also the possibility of changing to …

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I’m on the lowest Digital Ocean droplet that has 2GB memory and I reckon it takes about 10 minutes.

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Determining whether my VPS needs any upgrades (generally)

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