Discourse On Replit?

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Is there any way do run discourse on Replit?

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for what? to do what?

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Iv’e wanted to host discourse on Replit, mostly because I want to see how all the admin controls and stuff like that work before I put it on my computer.

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I doubt it.

You don’t want to install it on your computer. You want to install it on something like a digital ocean droplet. Digital ocean and mailgun are the easiest way to get it set up.

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This has been asked before and my response was this:

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If you want to just look at it set up a local #dev-install. But as @pfaffman says, this is not suitable for Production when you introduce other users.

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It seems like it might work. NodeBB works, so maybe?

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I managed to get Discourse running on Replit (with multiple concurrent users), but the new egress limits make it far too expensive (it uses over 10gb of egress per day)

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As a replit user, I can attest it’s definitely possible but not feasible

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Luckily, egress should reset May 1st, meaning that you can run it again soon (for like a day).

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For calibration, my modest forum (80 actives per week, 120 actives per month) serves about 40G in a month, 20G of which is cached by my CDN (Cloudflare.) A load of the front page seems to be 12 MByte.

It’s possible that a non-standard setup will somehow allow for less client caching and so with clients fetching more your data transfers will be greater.

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Since a site with nginx configured doesn’t seem to waste egress, I think my site not having nginx was the issue.

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how can I make a discourse server with nginx

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Hello Izaan,

Is your question related to Replit? If it’s not, I’ll move it to a new topic.

Can you also add more information to your question, which may be vague at this time?

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I think pepople use nginx on Replit to set up discourse since Replit doesn’t support docker. So it may be

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Do you not want to do a standard install?

Discourse uses nginx. Do you want to have an external nginx? Are you trying to install without docker? Do you want to install on replit or somewhere else?

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Sorry for the late reply.

I (actually 9pfs) figured it out (and yes, I was trying to install discourse on Replit).

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