I am hosting Discourse on an EC2 instance, and according to historical data from the CDN, the community size is anticipated to average around 20.03 million requests in a month. I would like suggestions on the number and size of instances needed, as well as whether auto-scaling is necessary.

Hmm, it’s possible to run Discourse on one machine, using either one or two Docker containers, but I don’t think I’ve seen anything about spreading out over more than one instance. The usual story is to scale up to larger instances: more CPUs, more RAM. And one can use local storage or cloud stora…

Apologies, but it’s 20 million requests per month. The current website utilizes autoscaling with 7 t3a.medium instances and 1 t3a.large instance, and we are migrating this website to the Discourse platform. I would like suggestions on the number and size of instances needed, as well as whether auto-…

It’s hard to guess just what you’ll need. I know of a site with 3.5M monthly page views on a 8GB 4CPU VM. You could use that as a guildeline. It’s serving images itself, which you can’t (easily?) do with multiple instances; you’ll presumably have assets on S3 and CDNs for the site and the S3 bucket. …

Then use ECS or whatever your favorite other solution is with a load balancer.

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Jaskaran (Jaskaran) June 10, 2024, 4:24pm 5

If a single large EC2 instance hosting Discourse goes down, Entire site will go down. pls provide solution to this. we plan to use RDS for database and elasticache

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