Which performance is better if discourse or phpbb hosts on a same vps?

[doudou]

Which performance is better if discourse or phpbb hosts on a same vps?

For example: VPS: 1G memory

Anyone have idea?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Hard to say, since we are comparing apples and oranges here. As an older project, phpBB will be less resource intensive than Discourse so it might fit in 512mb or even 256mb of RAM. That’s all I can think of as a practical point of comparison.

[riking (Kane York)]

Look also at this topic:

Running other websites on the same machine as Discourse

If you want to run other websites on the same machine as Discourse, you need to set up an extra NGINX or HAProxy proxy in front of the Docker container. If you have not already, please read the Advanced Troubleshooting with Docker guide, as it covers the basics on the separation between host and container. This guide assumes you already have Discourse working - if you don’t, it may be hard to tell whether or not the configuration is working. Install nginx outside the container First, make sur…

You’ll probably want php-fpm hooked up to the front nginx

[doudou]

If phpbb, redis, mysql and nginx were packed in a docker, maybe they have same performance and less configure task.

[elberet (Jens Maier)]

PhpBB doesn’t use Redis, MySQL has a smaller footprint than PostgreSQL and the overhead incurred by running a docker container is negligible.

Configuring phpBB on a VPS is probably a bit harder than installing a single Discourse instance. A tool à la Discourse’s docker launcher doesn’t exist, so at best you could get an Apache-MySQL-PHP (or Nginx-MySQL-PHP) stack as a Docker container which leaves you with the usual task of uploading phpBB’s files to your server by FTP, creating a database user and managing passwords and copying all that info into phpBB’s setup script…

[doudou]

I had installed phpbb before. Discourse seems better except email setting. In phpbb, you just need fill in smtp, username and passwd, then it works. In the beginning, I can’t receive confirm email from discourse, bother me some. Then I got a broken site.