Good morning all, I would like to know what storage is recommended to open its Discourse forum? Thank you in advance for your reply. Good afternoon.

That depends. The fastest the storage the better, usually for small installations I would go with the local storage, if you plan to have a lot of attachments it’s cheaper and easier to run in the long run to setup S3. That way the important stuff is fast enough and predictable and the media gets loa…

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Hi, Thank you for your answers. I don’t know how to do it. It’s complex for me. I ask you this because I intend to choose the Discourse hosting solution which offers me turnkey creation and hosting. Discourse Hosting Plans and Pricing - Communiteq We can host your forum in the United…

Hi, I bring the subject up to get an answer. Thank you in advance for your help.

Didn’t you get an answer!? Or was your question HOW MUCH storage, and not WHICH kind of storage? (I think “what” has been understood as “which” by most people, but maybe it wasn’t what you meant).

I suggest asking your hosting service? You can also do some simple math – estimate how many pictures / attachments will be uploaded each day by how many users, then multiply by the number of days, etc.

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marianord (Mariano Rodriguez) November 20, 2020, 4:15pm 4

Yes, SSD helps a lot, NVMe is even better.

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