Any suggestions for a good vps provider to host discourse? Any feedback for Liniode vs Digital ocean? Digital Ocean’s $20 plan seems to be good. It has 2GB RAM and 2 cores. Not sure if 2GB RAM is sufficient though? Please advice.

Just wondering, how many go with DO or Linode? poll

Linode, although the kind of person using linode has different support needs than those on DO.

[image] SouperC: Linode, although the kind of person using linode has different support needs than those on DO. I suppose you mean that one provides different kind of support than the other? Could you say what kind?

Basically there is no suppprt with linode, so you need to be pretty proficient.

Here are gazzillion topics with references to Digital Ocean. I’ll use this one to announce that Digital Ocean has finally upgraded their plans with better resources, thus the 5$ option is now suitable for Discourse - it has now 1GB of RAM.

[image] ljpp: thus the 5$ option is now suitable for Discourse - it has now 1GB of RAM. What? That’s amazing :tada: [image] My goodness you are right. Great news!

Stonkin deal. I tested OVH’s lowest option and while CPU and RAM are OK, the disk space makes is impractical to use I’ve found. It will run well, but rebuilds are, well flaky. There’s just not enough space on the drive.

[image] SouperC: Stonkin deal. Well, not really. DO is finally matching what everyone else has been offering for quite some time (LeaseWeb, Linode, Vultr, Hetzner, ScaleWay…). They are huge and reputable operator with excellent track record. On the other hand, they offer you the slowest sing…

Many of the ones you listed, I don’t view as reputable. Linode in particular has massive red flags from every skilled security person I know, who flat out say “never use Linode, I can’t say why in public, but don’t.”

I’ve been using Vultr for nearly a year, granted it is only a sandbox running Discourse, thus no traffic, no real users, but it gets the job done and hasn’t had any issues what-so-ever (apart from running low on disk space from time to time). To my knowledge, it hasn’t gone down once, not that I wo…

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