Hello! Say I wanted to run two separate communities on the same VPS, what would be the best way to go about it? Any advice will be much appreciated! Cheers :grinning:

You’ll need a reverse proxy if you have two containers. You’ll want to do a two container install so that you have only one postgres running. You’ll need at least 2gb to do it, though 4 might be better, so if you hope this will save money over a single 1gb vm, you’re better off just using two small …

[image] Multisite configuration with Docker Self-Hosting warning While multisite is supported in the Discourse application, this is an advanced sysadmin setup. If you don’t know what you’re doing, do not set up multisite. The Discourse team is unable to provid…

Alrighty thanks :grinning: This may be a silly question but can’t you just install two separate containers for each?

Yes you can. read the contents of the yml files for hints. you want to change directory mappings and some other tweaks.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: so if you hope this will save money over a single 1gb vm, you’re better off just using two small vms. This pretty much sums it up for me. Thanks bud :slight_smile:

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Clement2005 (Clement) December 18, 2022, 1:20pm 6

This pretty much sums it up for me.

Thanks bud

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