Hi, I’ve recently installed Discourse on my own VPS. I have only 2 GB of RAM. Is this sufficient to run a forum in production? There have been times where I got a 502 gateway error which maybe due to lack of memory. Sometimes, after installing a plugin, I have to refresh my admin panel several time…

You can easily run Discourse off a VPS with 2GB of RAM. You may want to consider setting up swap if you don’t have that already. Running ./discourse-setup will do this for you.

I did initially setup swap, but if I use swap memory, it slows it down by a lot, so by default, I didn’t want to do that.

Our default configuration should only use swap under pressure, like during web updates. If you host a large community and start experiencing slows response times from the Discourse API you can increase the CPU/RAM of your server and re-run ./discourse-setup so it starts using the augmented resource…

Is this a new community or did you import a large database? How much traffic do you expect? Single thread cpu speed as well as SSD for storage are critical.

I didn’t import any database. This is a fresh forum with 0 posts. The only traffic is me at the moment. However, I do expect traffic that could be up to 1000 users visiting the site a day.

[imagen] AntiMetaman: I’m using the latest docker image by bitnami. Oh. Don’t do that. Or ask them why your performance sucks. See: Discourse official Standard Installation

Curious as to why you advocate against using the bitnami image? (assumably @AntiMetaman is referring to their new helm charts here . But also, they’ve got new a new helm chart here

[imagen] dfee: Curious as to why you advocate against using the bitnami image? We, the team that develop Discourse, only test it against our own base image. Installs that don’t follow the Install Discourse in production with the official, supported instructions may subtle break anytime and we…

Just FYI, and offering a different perspective @AntiMetaman Although Discourse can run on a VPS with minimal RAM, when you build and rebuild Discourse it will be quite slow compared to building on a machine with more RAM. I personally would not run a “truly” production Discourse app on 2GB of RAM,…

Discourse recommends 1GB as the minimum and I have ran installations this way and it gets slow quick, therefore I would go with 2GB. This first 2GB last a long mile I currently run a community with ~3500 visits/day without Crawlers and some 20-30 posts per day I haven’t seen any issue with the 2GB…

¿Cuánta RAM se necesita para Discourse?

Soporte Instalación

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 14 Julio, 2020 21:35 7

Oh. No hagas eso. O pregúntales por qué tu rendimiento es tan malo.

Ver: Instalación estándar oficial de Discourse

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¿Cuánta RAM se necesita para Discourse?

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