On the Discourse admin panel is a one-click button to upgrade to the latest and to roll back an upgrade, similar to Wordpress. Behind the scenes, the Discourse software is just a stateless docker image living on the server which is swapped out during an upgrade. See https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-update-discourse/10962.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> wrote: > What about software updates, e.g. if there is a security patch or we need > new features? > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> It varies depending on the CPU and RAM specs, but my instance is >> $10/month. >> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Scott Jones <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> How much are the DigitalOcean instances? >>> Your Discourse-based forum seemed so much better than using Google >>> groups, it would be very nice to be able to move. >>> >>> On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:34:34 PM UTC-4, Jonathan Malmaud wrote: >>>> >>>> It just needs an inexpensive digitalocean instance to run; it doesn't >>>> seem like a particularly big deal to me. It automatically backs up to S3 >>>> every night. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The big disadvantage appears to be that we need to maintain our own >>>>> servers? That seems like a huge price to pay. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >> >
