Improve my DO droplet setup

[marianord (Mariano Rodriguez)]

If you want (for some reason) a fully HA setup in Digital Ocean I’d do something like:

• Load Balancer
• Droplets with the application container
• Managed PostgreSQL Database from DO

Here’s some information about the configuration for the external DB.

Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server

Let’s say you’re using AWS RDS, or an existing PostgreSQL server managed elsewhere. It’s fairly straightforward to get Discourse to use such a setup, without needing to grant superuser privileges to anything that Discourse itself runs. Here’s how. Prerequisites Discourse requires PostgreSQL 13; if you try to run on a newer or older version, it might work, but we don’t guarantee it, and if something breaks in the future, you get to keep both pieces. We also require some extensions that are di…

This will increase greatly the monthly bill for the infrastructure, and I really think it’s unnecessary. Also, this will not protect you from a massive data center issue as Digital Ocean doesn’t have Multi Availability Zones per region, or inter region load balancing (at least that’s my understanding).

In the five years or so I’ve been using Digital Ocean, I haven’t seen any issue that would affect in such a way the Data Center.