I had a site running in beta for a while on a 1CPU/1MB hosted VM. The plan was to update to a more performant platform after the initial configs and consmetics. While always slow, expectedly, recent updates forced a hardware upgrade. Docker Manager failed to update several times. Discourse failed to upgrade several times after that.
I upgraded the hardware to 2CPU/4GB today. Pages are spiffy. Updates went very quickly.
This is a big Thanks to the Discourse team for ongoing maintenance and improvements - which ensure updates are as painless as possible.
This is also a big warning to other admins. We can’t run this on older hardware anymore. Old hardware leads to weird issues that no one here can debug. If your system is behaving weirdly, upgrade the hardware, even temporarily, see if the problems go away. Downgrade if required for budgeting. But at least you’ll know where issues are, and are not.
HTH