我正在研究 Discourse 为开源项目提供的免费计划 是否足以满足我们的项目需求，或者如果不够，成本会有多高。
免费计划仅包含 5 GB 的存储空间。有人能分享一下典型的存储需求经验吗？对于一个科学软件的支持论坛，用户偶尔会发布一些图表（即大部分是文本，但不完全是），5 GB 的空间能支撑多久？
当我看到 这个帖子 时，我特别担心。
提问者说：“它只有 600 名会员和 160 个主题，但已经占用了 13 GB 的存储空间”，而 @codinghorror 的回答是：
我不建议用少于 20 GB、理想情况下 30 GB 的磁盘空间来运营一个活跃的社区。
这表明，任何低于提供 50 GB 存储的商业计划都不可行。即使是标准计划也仅限于 10 GB。
我对“应至少规划 20-30 GB 存储空间”的说法与开源计划仅提供 5 GB 之间的矛盾感到有些困惑。是否有使用过开源计划的人能对此发表评论？
附：目前我们的项目每月在 StackOverflow 上约有 30-50 个问题，在邮件列表中约有 10 个。
My recommendation would be to wait until you have a problem and at that point come up with the cash to pay them or move to self hosting. They won’t kick you off the second you pass the threshold.
Thanks for the response @pfaffman. It would still be quite useful to be able to have some estimate of when that would happen. I have a rough idea for the page view limit, but I am completely lost (and have no reference point whatsoever) for the storage limit.
Well, you can certainly estimate based on number of photos / pictures uploaded per person, per day. Average smartphone pics are about 2mb - 3mb these days but trending upward.
You can’t compare those numbers.
On the self-hosted install, you will have a 20gb disk, that will have to house the OS, standard Ubuntu packages, Docker, Discourse base image, backups, uploads, database, assets, etc.
In our managed hosting, those 5GB aren’t used by the OS, Docker Images and stuff like that. That 5GB is exclusively for uploads and manual backups.
Thanks Rafael, that clears things up. The 5 GB may actually be sufficient then.
I was confused by the thread I linked, and I did not realize that the numbers mentioned there are not comparable to the 5 GB limit. I assumed that storage is taken up by something that is not intuitive and not easy to predict. If it’s really just the amount of uploads and message text, then it’s fine (and predictable).