The good news is that usage of this forum is slowly but steadily rising. For the first time passed the 50k page views per month (51.3k). The bad news is that our open source free Discourse hosting officially only allows 50k page views per month. They claim they will only start complaining when …

Some additional info: Paid plan: Discourse pricing plans Self hosting: How Do I Install Discourse? Third option - self-supported community install Another option since Discourse is open source ( GitHub ) and free is to pay a third party to do the site install and regular upgrades. There are down…

[image] EricGT: For those who are also thinking this might work on a Raspberry Pi 4 it will not Right, but how about a Beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pies?

[image] Boris: Right, but how about a Beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pies? I don’t know I have not tried this; also Ruby on Rails and such is something I have never used. My best advise would be to jump in on the discussion at the Discourse forum and ask there.

[image] jamesnvc: it would require some active attention, backups, and the like As long as doing it is idiot proof and takes no more than about 15 minutes a week I don’t mind. I know Jan does backups every few weeks and the updates from Discourse are noted as being a one click operation, but …

[image] EricGT: Also from reading it appears that Discourse only prefers self-hosting being done as Docker containers which I have some experience with, but not much. Yeah…it’s the Docker stuff that makes me a little leery. I personally find it makes things really challenging to debug when th…

It seems between the two of us we have 2/3 of what is needed covered but the 1/3 we are missing is what to do when critical bug aborts a system or server. I don’t know if rolling a Docker instance back to the last safe docker instance will preserve the new post (data) since the change.

Yes…I’ve set things up for my own work with rolling PostgreSQL backups, but that’s a solution with a bunch of moving parts as well & restoring isn’t a simple process.

Just reading a few post on Discourse meta ( How to recover my broken (not web-accessible) Discourse installation after failed upgrade ), the impression I am getting for dealing with potential upgrade failures is to Use multiple virtual Discourse servers so that one can host the site live while anoth…

Do I sense you two want to try self hosting? That also means we need a machine at some reliable place. Possibly @anniepoo can help out at Oregon?

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jamesnvc May 2, 2020, 4:27pm 5

I ran some Discourse instances a number of years ago…it was relatively straight-forward to set up, but obviously it would require some active attention, backups, and the like.

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