I’m about to embark on the journey of installing Discourse on my own server (DigitalOcean droplet).
My plan
Type of community: Invite only community
Type of installation: Simple cloud install as mentioned here
Server: Digital Ocean droplet (Premium AMD, 2gb ram)
Transactional email: Postmark with smtp configuration
DNS: Cloudflare ( I went over https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-with-cloudflare-best-practices/293405)
Estimated community size: 100 users
Domain: I already have the subdomain ready with email setup under the subdomain.
Features: For now, only interested in the core plugins.
My experience: I have experience on running Wordpress websites on my own web servers but I’m new to Discourse and community platforms in general.