My server will not contain only a Discourse installation (150000 messages and 3000 users migrated from PHPBB, I think a few dozen messages will be written each day), but also a variable number of small Wordpress websites, and 1 larger which will be using WP-Discourse.
Any suggestion about the offer that would suit my needs?
A last question:
It is possible that I would have to host 2 discourse installations in the future.
The first one with 150000 messages and 3000 members, but I don’t know how many visits per day. In terms on postd message, I think a few dozen each days as I said.
The other one would be 200000 messages and 7000 members, with twice as more messages per day. Don’t know how many visits per day either.
Do you think a dual core with 8 GB RAM will be enough, or do you strongly advice a quad core?
Start with your best guess low end package and upgrade/add more resources as you need to. You can’t downgrade though.
We’re on OVH. Small community, 2.5k/reads a day. But I will say that even the lowest spec OVH server barely broke a sweat in terms of CPU. 3-5%. RAM is always maxed but that’s the nature of the OS.
One thing to note, Discourse likes fast CPUs over number or cores.
The main problem I had was insufficient disk space, that was because I stored too many backups on there. Rookie error
