Which performance is better if discourse or phpbb hosts on a same vps?
For example: VPS: 1G memory
Anyone have idea?
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A discussion was started by doudou to compare the performance of Discourse and phpBB hosting on the same VPS. codinghorror noted that phpBB is less resource-intensive and can fit in 512mb or even 256mb of RAM, making it a practical point of comparison. riking suggested looking into a topic on running other websites on the same machine as Discourse and using php-fpm with nginx.
doudou considered packaging phpBB, Redis, MySQL, and nginx in a Docker container for easier configuration and potentially similar performance. However, elberet pointed out that phpBB doesn’t use Redis, and MySQL has a smaller footprint than PostgreSQL. Additionally, configuring phpBB on a VPS can be more challenging than installing a single Discourse instance.
doudou shared their experience with both platforms, finding Discourse to be better except for email settings, which were more straightforward in phpBB. They encountered issues with receiving confirmation emails from Discourse, resulting in a broken site.
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.
Look also at this topic:
You’ll probably want php-fpm hooked up to the front nginx
If phpbb, redis, mysql and nginx were packed in a docker, maybe they have same performance and less configure task.
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…
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.