Disk usage spike during backup, Discourse crashed hard :-(

[BryanV (Bryan Van de ven)]

@pnoeric

Oh wow, that’s a great idea. Never thought of that. So I would apply the CDN to my Amazon bucket, and then tell Discourse to use S3 for all assets? (Like I had before? lol)

We do this for discourse.bokeh.org and it works great. Suggest configuring a better domain name for the CDN than the default AWS gibberish name (e.g. we use discourse-uploads.bokeh.org)

[pnoeric (Eric)]

Thanks Bryan (and @Stephen), I’ve got the new bucket set up just as y’all advised. Now I just am working out the right settings.

What are the right settings to use S3 bucket (with non-Amazon URL)?

So I have an Amazon S3 bucket set up to store my forum assets, and I put it on a custom domain and set up CloudFlare CDN to cache the content. My custom domain is called something like http://forum-storage.com, which points to https://forum-storage.com.s3-us-east-1.amazonaws.com. The S3 bucket itself is named forum-storage.com. This is all working correctly. If I add an image to the main folder of the bucket, I can retrieve it on my custom url, i.e. http://forum-storage.com/test.jpg returns th…