Digital Ocean Installation

Installation
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I have three installs of discourse on Digital Ocean. They are all either $15 or $20 droplets. I want to start working on a new project and have read that discourse can be installed on a $5 droplet. CAN be and SHOULD be are different things. Will it run without server errors or running out of memory on their lowest level droplet? (2GB RAM, 25GB sad, one cpu)

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Yes, assuming you’re hosting moderately sized communities.

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I’ll give it a try. Thanks.

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I have done installs on 1GB droplets for a couple hundred people, most of whom are still doing just fine. I require a 2GB ($10/month) droplet for people who have many plugins.

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Thanks very much. That makes me feel confident to try it. About to start it.

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I just spun one up on a $5 droplet as a personal instance with no issues, including sharing a server with a small Wordpress site.

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So I set up a $5 droplet. I am constantly getting 502 server errors. Especially, but not only, when I am trying to save admin settings. No particular setting. I can be doing anything and then WHAM. Is it likely a fault in the install or a problem with the server? I’m running my dns through cloudflare. I’m running ssl through letsencrypt through the app.yml file.

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Cloudflare is DNS only? Do you have plug-ins installed?

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Cloudflare is DNS only. I have the setting ticked to “require https”, also. No plugins at all.

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But there is no reason to do that since I have “force https” set in Discourse. I have disabled that in Cloudflare. Do you think that would have caused the issues, @pfaffman?

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If Cloudflare is DNS only, then no Cloudflare settings should matter. If you do a dns lookup for your site it resolves to the IP of your droplet?

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It does come up with the correct ip address.

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I think I’ll try “rebuilding” the app. Maybe that will do something good.

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Not good:

Here’s what I got when I tried to rebuild the app.

./launcher rebuild app
/usr/bin/docker: Error response from daemon: OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:348: starting container process caused “process_linux.go:402: container init caused “process_linux.go:385: running prestart hook 0 caused \“error running hook: signal: segmentation fault, stdout: , stderr: \”””: unknown.
Your Docker installation is not working correctly

The fourth time I tried it began the rebuild. Should I destroy the droplet and start over?

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Could not load list of meta packages: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
Could not load list of meta packages: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory

I think my server is toast.

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Looks like a ram problem. Do you have swap? Is there other stuff installed?

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No. Nothing besides discourse. I used their one button install. That’s the only thing that I did differently than ever before.

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You should follow the standard install instructions. That will configure swap and you can use a 1gb droplet.

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I’ll destroy this one and start over and install the way I usually do. (Which is by the directions.). Thanks

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