Small thing to add: I just did a rebuild of a fresh install (with no plugins) on a CX22 machine (because that’s what I started with before looking at the ARM server), and it took 8m 52s. So somewhere in between @Canapin’s numbers, but I assume with a bit of content it might increase more towards the 10 minute mark.
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I’ve updated the list of recommended providers with Scaleway. I’m afraid I don’t have a benchmark, but filled in the rest! (I use bigger instances)
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There are numerous affordable VPS providers available. I recommend Oracle Cloud, which offers a complimentary Linux server with 4 cores and 24 GB of memory. Alternatively, consider Netcup, which provides a high-performance server with 4 cores, 8 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of storage for only 5 euros per month.
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Wow, I finally got a working Discourse install.
Because I already have a web-hosting account with Veerotech I went with them for my full root KVM VPS self-managed server.
| RAM | Storage | vCPU | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1GB | 30GB | 1 | $4.95/mo |
| 2GB | 40GB | 1 | $9.95/mo |
| 4GB | 50GB | 1 | $15.25/mo |
I went with the lowest priced option.
I went with the Linux Ubuntu 20.04 X86 64 Minimal Latest V1 option for my OS.
When I logged into root with SSH, I quickly learned that the partitions were not big enough for my needs. I’m a novice with Linux, so I had to do quite a lot of searching and reading before I was able to finally expand my root partition to 25GB, and add a 5GB swap partition.
After that the Discourse install went pretty smoothly.
My next problem was the fact that my site is proxied via Cloudflare, so I had to do some more searching and reading to finally get it to actually work.
Since Veerotech had not been mentioned here, and I have been using them for almost 4 years for my web-hosting without any issues or complaints, I thought I would leave a reply to let y’all know about my experience with them.
Thanks,
Major
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Its end of life is in a few weeks. You really want 24.04.
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Yes, but sadly that one was not on the list.
Would one of the other options been have been a better choice?
I guess with Ubuntu Pro it will still be supported until 2030 though.
I would avoid a hosting provider that offers these choices at all cost.
It looks like that list hasn’t been updated in 5 years.
Fedora 20 is EOL since Juny 2015, CentOS 8 since December 2021.
AlmaLinux 9 is the only OS that was actually released less than 3 years ago.
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Would running the do-release-upgrade affect my Discourse install?
Yes. It’s often possible to upgrade the OS that way. But that doesn’t change this:
That’s sound advice. The likelihood that something there would break and you’d lose everything is not insignificant.
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Ok, true. I guess if this server was for anything more important I would be shopping around more and comparing other hosting providers.
I only ordered it for 1 month just to play around with and try to learn some stuff about linux.
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