migrate discourse (discuss.ipfs.io) from self-hosted to hosted

[eefahy]

Things to do:

• review current storage needs and admin accounts
• contact discourse folks about migration

ref: https://payments.discourse.org/pricing

[victorb]

Yay \o/!

On that topic, we should reach out to @erlend-sh as he helped us with getting Discourse in the first place, with the migration to discuss.ipfs.io and he even has an account on our forum. He's a Community Advocate over at Discourse.

[daviddias]

@eefahy can we have an ETA on this migration? It would be one more nice thing to remove from Infra's team plate

[eefahy]

@daviddias I agree it would be great to remove from our plate but it’s a P2 atm and therefore pretty far down our list of things to get done.

@victorb do you have any bandwidth to take this one on?

[mburns]

I'm happy to move this forward. To do the migration, I need access to the machine and/or the web ui.

@lgierth can you add my user/key, please? I don't see any credentials in 1pass to let me do this myself.

@daviddias could you or someone else grant me Admin permissions on the forum? Per this guide, things like backups can only be triggered by admin-level users. I'm https://discuss.ipfs.io/u/mburns

[ghost]

@lgierth can you add my user/key, please? I don't see any credentials in 1pass to let me do this myself.

Yeah added both you and scout :+1:

[scout]

ping @daviddias - can @mburns get admin access to the forum please?

[mburns]

I've granted myself admin access via the rake task.

I've reached out to Discourse' sales people, and apparently Discourse will handle the migration if we go from self-hosted to hosted. Easy-peasy.

The migration itself looks easy. TODO

• [x] announce migration / planned maintenance window on the forum
• [x] stop forum
• [x] backup/export
• [x] Take DO snapshot
• [x] import on hosted plan
• [x] update DNS
• [x] ✋ high fives all around ✋

[mburns]

Migration complete.

[daviddias]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽! Thank you for shipping this!