# MKJ's Opinionated Discourse Deployment Configuration

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/mkjs-opinionated-discourse-deployment-configuration/193355>\
**Category:** Sysadmins\
**Tags:** explanation, install\
**Created:** [June 9, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mkjs-opinionated-discourse-deployment-configuration/193355 "2021-06-09T23:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcdanlj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcdanlj/32/131829_2.png) [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mkjs-opinionated-discourse-deployment-configuration/193355/47 "2026-08-07T15:56:28Z")

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I do not use an object store for public access in Discourse, due in part to the migration being a one-way door and also not needing it; in my case, it would be serving that data from the same storage, just with another VM to manage. I use an object store only as a restic backup target, done outside Discourse.

Discourse backups with thumbnails but without images, combined with host-level backups of uploads, backed up with restic on host, means that those limitations are, as far as I know, irrelevant.

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