It doesn’t fit all, but fits most small/new communities. I don’t recommend it, but at least some of the installs that I have done “just worked”, with no upgrades or anything for a year or more.
Okay, I understand. Not confusing but it does says “the community can install…” (So I take it that is you then. )
Here’s what the page reads for this, so basically what I said above is correct. Guess I should have hovered over that link and it would have showed your website.
“Alternatively, the community can install Discourse in the cloud for you for a flat one-time fee of $99. Please note that a $5/month hosting fee is still payable to the cloud provider (Digital Ocean), and that this option is completely self-support after the initial install. Click here to purchase a self-supported community install.”
Evolution Host, €10, 40GB SSD, 2 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 7m23s build time, US (3), CA, UK, DE, FR, PL, AU
(build had the plugins: docker_manager, discourse-bbcode, discourse-spoiler-alert, discourse-push-notifications, discourse-checklist, discourse-topic-previews, discourse-follow) More at Self-hosting migration example — VPS to VPS
I’m a Hetzner user.
I host https://unicyclist.com on a CPX31 (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 SSD). I sometimes rent servers for very short durations when I need to do some tests, as they are billed hourly.
Name
vCPUs
RAM
SSD
Traffic
Price / hour
Price / month (VAT included)
CX11
1
2 GB
20 GB
20 TB
€0.0071 / h
€4.51
CPX11
2
2 GB
40 GB
20 TB
€0.0084 / h
€5.18
CX21
2
4 GB
40 GB
20 TB
€0.0104 / h
€6.37
CPX21
3
4 GB
80 GB
20 TB
€0.0143 / h
€8.98
CX31
2
8 GB
80 GB
20 TB
€0.0182 / h
€11.54
CPX31
4
8 GB
160 GB
20 TB
€0.0251 / h
€16.18
CX41
4
16 GB
160 GB
20 TB
€0.0340 / h
€20.71
CPX41
8
16 GB
240 GB
20 TB
€0.0496 / h
€29.99
CX51
8
32 GB
240 GB
20 TB
€0.0653 / h
€39.15
CPX51
16
32 GB
360 GB
20 TB
€0.1047 / h
€64.33
Since 2 CPU are recommended for discourse, I guess the CPX11 can be a good choice for a small community instead of the CX21?
I just checked Webtropia quickly. Prices don’t seem more awesome than with others (Contabo for example). But can you run Docker with they virtualization ? They offer containers by default, not KVM VPS. It seems, you have to add 5 EUR/month for that. Not sure you can run discourse with their containers (did you try it ?)
Sorry, I have only played a bit with it, but it’s very easy to use and pricing is very good. They see themselves as a modern Heroku. They might even help out create a guide for running Discourse.
I’ll throw IONOS into the ring here. We have 2 discourse sites now up and running on a Cloud S and a Cloud L server. The cloud L performs better of course and is a max of $24 per month. Pricing at IONOS is done by hours of running as usual and is more expensive no doubt. The cloud L is 2 vCPUs, 4GB of ram and 80GB of space at 0.0333 per hour to a max of $24 per month.
You get $100 of credit to get up and running and that helps initial costs of configuration.
Thanks to @pfaffman installation service we were able to get up and running quickly.
One interesting hiccup was that by default IONOS cloud servers don’t allow incoming email traffic. I changed the firewall policies in IONOS cloud panel and added common email ports to allow inbound email traffic to flow. Here are the firewall settings in cloud panel:
The servers come with an optional Plesk obsidian install ($5 per month extra) which helps configure and add services like docker. It also helps to configure users domains and lots of other custom monitoring and service management.
The reason why I use them is I have all my shared hosting, domains and other stuff there. It’s just history I guess and I do like their support so far. It’s been reliable.
Was it because of Plesk that the problems occurred or IONOS cloud itself?
It was all of it. Plesk, the blocked incoming mail port, and I think a couple other things that made the DNS tricky that I don’t remember. It’s why the extra $100 (which I think seems like a lot) for a custom server is what I have to charge.
ssdNodes has been rock solid. They have very little customer service, but email tickets are answered in 5 minutes - about an hour. Service has been totally dependable for years and very inexpensive.
All cpu’s are shared and they oversell the heck out of their reseller service, always acting like everything is on a countdown timer when it is just their basic pricing. [I need to look through notes to find where they are hosted out of]. If you can live with the caveats, and are technically proficient enough to solve your own problems, they are good for Discourse hosting.
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