Is Discourse Still Free to Self Host?

[david (David Taylor)]

@merefield

that 1GB statement is really out of date

Just opened this topic about that. Really hoping we can keep 1GB as the minimum

Improvements to js build times in low-memory environments (May 2024)

Our official install guide lists 1GB of RAM (+2GB swap) as the minimum requirements for Discourse. This is still possible, but over the last few months it has become increasingly painful to rebuild Discourse with servers of this spec. This is primarily because of changes to our JS build tooling. We’ve just landed these tweaks, which should significantly improve rebuild times on low-memory servers: Given the number of variables it’s hard to promise exact numbers. But, in my tests on a DO drop…