I self-host Forem at https://zig.news and a particularly nice post got us on the front page of HN today. At first I was a bit worried:
But the site seems to be holding up well, even if we're getting a good number of concurrent requests.
And the small Digital Ocean droplet is chugging along nicely.
Not bad!
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Very happy this is working!!!
The CDN/edge caching story is not entirely worked out on self-host (it could be, it's just not baked in)... So glad to see no major problems.
I'd say keep working away at combing through the admin area to get to a state of "full config", as there are probably still some missing things here and there you could get worked out to your benefit, but congrats!
Zig seems like a really great project for Forem.
Thanks for sharing, I was asking myself how the droplet would hold on for our community too !
Well done on doing front page on HN, that's definitely something I'm going to work on :)
This is so awesome. Thank you for sharing and congrats on getting on the front page 🥳
Congrats on getting on the front page!
Glad to hear your droplet is going strong, long may it continue!
zig zig zig .. wish you all the best to scale up.
This is awesome to hear!