Wow it’s so great!
It works flawlessly on Raspberry Pi!
What model is it exactly?
Pi 4 with how much RAM?
Does it have a hard disc drive?
Anything special?
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It’s running on the Pi4 with 8GB of RAM, but it’s using less than 2GB now, so it’s compatible with the cheaper one.
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 7813 1333 1097 43 5382 6332
Swap: 99 0 99
I’m using a 64GB microSD card, as usual. It gave me a 59GB usable / partition, and at the moment it has 90% of that free.
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It looks a lot faster than my old cheap VPS 
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Some cheap VPS are shared between so many tenants that I can see that happening indeed. In a Pi you can guarantee that the hardware is 100% really there 
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Is your unit only running Discourse or does it do something else as well? Any feeling for how many kWh of power it is using in a year? I set up a trial Discourse server on an old Dell XPS430 but having a massive box taking up the corner of my room isn’t ideal if a very small box could do the same. Given I have internet at home a Rasberry Pi would be a lot cheaper than a cloud solution. Potential user base of my project would be low (max 100 users, monthly postings and perhaps the odd bit of discussion around the monthly posts).
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Should be anywhere between 4W to 3W.
this is genuinely awesome, i love it
i wanted to link this but it seems to be offline rn 
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
perhaps will we have to wait of the sun to come up 
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the website is back online, it has 29% charge left and it is sunrise soon in Barcelona
@markcoley in the article above, these guys use a special SOC which has a battery management chip integrated and only draws 1-2W. i am unsure if it’s system resources would suffice for Discourse.
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