Hello, I am currently running a forum with approximately: • 800,000 topics • Around 12,000 daily active users • Hosted on a dedicated server with 64GB RAM I am considering migrating to Discourse and would like to understand: 1. At this scale, would Discourse require any special customization or…

Migration question – 800k topics, 12k DAU

pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) February 26, 2026, 6:57pm 2

That’s likely more than enough. How many daily pageviews do you have?

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