I’ve recently set up a Discourse forum on DigitalOcean, and was wondering how to implement automatic backups. Turns out Discourse supports both automatic backups and uploading them to S3. Couldn’t be easier! To save money, you might want to create a lifecycle rule on S3 to archive the backups to Glacier, which is a slower, […]
Cloud-Config File for CoreOS with 2 GB of Swap on DigitalOcean
I recently installed Discourse on a CoreOS node at DigitalOcean. Since I chose the minimum spec that Discourse can run on, 1 GB memory, I had to enable 2 GB of swap space. This is solved by configuring CoreOS with an automatic swap service, through the standard cloud-config file. My complete cloud-config file (input this […]