Jay91 is planning to install Discourse on Digital Ocean after a successful experience on Vultr. He asked for clarification on a few points:
Swap for 8GB RAM plan: pfaffman confirmed that a swap is not necessary.
Docker installation: pfaffman advised to follow the official cloud install document to install Docker.
Hostname configuration: pfaffman explained that the hostname should be the domain name typed into the browser.
Jay91 also asked about avoiding conflicts between Let’s Encrypt and Cloudflare. Falco suggested keeping the DNS entry on Cloudflare set to gray, not orange.
With these questions answered, Jay91 is ready to proceed with the installation.
i have installed discourse on vultr a year ago successfully only by following the official guide, now am thinking to go to digital ocean to do that again but i need to know few things.
1- am going with 8Gb ram plan do i need to do the swap ? i never did that with 4Gb plan on vultr.
2- do i have to start from installing docker or docker is already installed on the droplet ?
3- Please remind me again about this part as i dont remember it ( ``` Hostname for your Discourse? [discourse.example.com]: ```) This means the top level domain ? i dont remember how i did it that time.
Install docker as described in the install cloud document.
Use the domain name that you type into your browser. (there is an example, what could make it more clear?)
You can just copy the app.yml file from the other server. You’ll want to run discourse-setup to have it adjust the memory settings for the additional ram.
One more question guys, how to avoid the conflict between Lets encrypt and cloudflare ? am going to setup the Lets Encrypt during the initial discourse setup and i will put the website on cloudflare after that, so what is the best practice to do the 2 things without having a broken website ?
