Hello, we want to setup a pilot test of discourse forums to create a paid tradeshow forum with display booths in paid and free categories. As well incorporate training seminars, etc. It will take about 6 months to organize everything and test out the different configurations and have limited funds …

A $12/month droplet is enough. You can get by on a $6/1gb droplet, but I don’t recommend it. You’ll also need mailgun or similar. Url be a few dollars a month, though they make it hard to find the pay as you go plan. Dashboard.literatecomputing.com will install it if you’ll give it api keys for ma…

I’m not an IT guy by professional, but I have or had lot of different types of sites — WordPress, Drupal, Moodle, Mediawiki, Gitea, Mastodon server etc. But I don’t understand docker, at all. With that background and compared to other apps, the easiest to start is WordPress and very close to it is D…

@WildfireForums.com What about doing a dev install instead for your testing?

Does that mean building a parallel test environment in dev, and have live forum under another directory? That looks ideal for ongoing testing of new plugins or upgrades in dev after going live so love the idea. Thanks, Glenn

I meant it for the [image] Glenn Coleman: for the pilot test on Digital Ocean Beacause you can use this method or this and do it for free.

What is cost of running pilot on Digital Ocean

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itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma) November 16, 2024, 7:54pm 9

Dev install for any kind of UAT or production testing is a really bad idea. Running dev install on a cloud environment for anything other than development is even worse.

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What is cost of running pilot on Digital Ocean

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