I have been running my discourse forum on Digital Ocean for a few months. Works beautifully at $10 a month. I know DO is an unmanaged VPS, so I am wondering what maintenance task is required? If maintenance tasks are required, what happen if I leave the server alone? This is a fairly small forum, j…

[image] pfaffman: Probably nothing. I have reason to believe that at least 50 people for whom I have done installs have never logged in to their server. I must respectfully disagree. Without making a drama, if you do not make security updates for weeks or months, you will get hacked. It’s tha…

Agreed. I gave instructions for having security patches automatically applied and automatic reboots.

To add some more confidence to that solution: I’ve been running multiple servers with this exact setup for quite some time, without any problems. One side effect of the way that unattended-upgrades works is that this will not update Docker – I’ve added "Docker:ubuntu-xenial" to Unattended-Upgrade::…

Hmm. So you don’t think that docker will upgrade even if it’s a security patch? I’m mildly concerned that a docker upgrade could break something. Docker still seems to be rather fast moving.

[image] pfaffman: Hmm. So you don’t think that docker will upgrade even if it’s a security patch? I don’t think so, because the origin shouldn’t match – this is because Docker doesn’t come out of Ubuntu’s repository and uses a different origin. I’m no expert here, though, so feel free to cor…

Sounds right to me. I’ll update my script and see about amending the install docs.

Hello, pls tell me what is the real minimum requirent for install discourse ? I wanna start comunity for 300 users per day. Im not sure , discourse will be good on my server with 1gb ram ? 1 core, and 10 gb ? Do i need ssd disk or not really ?

Find something a bit more powerful if You want less pains in life managing a forum server! I’d suggest a bare minimum of 2Cores and at least 2 GB RAM when You set up the forum for 300 Users you also have to bother about the images and stuffs they post so for the foreseeable time and estimation of t…

[image] itsbhanusharma: vswap Oh thanks for info but wait , im not sure im understand You . I must set any partition or somethink or just i need to take only server with 40gb ssd and clean os ? I can set this partition after instalation discourse or before ? Btw Ubuntu will be the better tha…

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You really want at least 20gb and you really want ssd.

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