That assuages my concerns about maintenance to a large degree. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>> >> >
