When we launched NeuroBB in 2015, as the first (and only) independent EEG, BCI, and neurofeedback discussion forum, we chose the forum software Discou

How to Migrate a Discourse Forum from DigitalOcean Droplet to Linveo VPS — The Autodidacts

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When we launched NeuroBB in 2015, as the first (and only) independent EEG, BCI, and neurofeedback discussion forum, we chose the forum software Discourse. We chose Discourse not because it is easy, but because it is hard because it’s good, despite its hefty resource requirements.

So, I have been self-hosting Discourse on DigitalOcean for the past decade, first on a $5/month 1GB droplet, then on a $12/month 2GB droplet when I ran out of disk space, then back to a $6/month 1GB droplet.

We’ve been happy with DigitalOcean, but it’s a bit pricey for a non-commercial forum. I considered migrating NeuroBB to Flarum to save on hosting, but I wasn’t willing to give up Discourse’s spam protection. (We tested out NodeBB and phpBB before settling on Discourse.) I have been shopping around for a better deal on Discourse hosting for several years now. I hoped to migrate NeuroBB to Fly.io, because I already host a lot of stuff on Fly, but it turned out to be complex, and more expensive than DigitalOcean.

I recently ran across a Bradley Taunt blogpost on Hacker News mentioning a hosting deal from Linveo, a company I hadn’t heard of, offering AMD Ryzen 7950X KVM VPSs with 25gb NVMe disk for $15/year on lowendtalk.com.

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