I am planning to move a rather popular forum from SMF to Discourse. The site has been running very stable of a 1GB Rackspace cloud server, but now I am trying to figure out what would be the minimum requirements with this traffic for running Discourse at Digital Ocean. Old stats in Finnish: Tappara…

Oh, btw - one question to @codinghorror and @sam : The old forum has been running on SMF for a decade. Is Discourse project future proof for the next 10 years?

[image] ljpp: Is Discourse project future proof for the next 10 years? From: https://www.discourse.org/faq/ Discourse is designed for the next 10 years of the Internet, so the minimum browser requirements are high

It is very hard to estimate … I tried to cover some of the considerations here: [image] With a server with 30GB of RAM How many users can I handle simultaneously Self-hosting At that scale your server will be ample and over provisioned. A 4GB instance at Digit…

Estimating required server capacity for a popular forum

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GregoryMatthews (Gregory Matthews) Janvier 8, 2017, 3:48 5

Is there a tutorial on how to put the Discourse DB on its own Instance as you mention above?

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