Main components:
Services:
Provisioning
Create DigitalOcean droplet
- Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS) x64
- 1 CPU
- 1 GB RAM
- 25 GB NVMe SSDs
- 1,000 GB transfer
See also: Recommended Initial Droplet Configuration
Upgrade installed packages
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Install Docker and Docker Compose
sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose
Clone plausible/hosting repo
git clone https://github.com/plausible/hosting && cd hosting
Configuration
Generate secret key
openssl rand -base64 64
Configure Plausible
nano plausible-conf.env
ADMIN_USER_NAME=<your-admin-user-name>
ADMIN_USER_EMAIL=<your-admin-user-email>
ADMIN_USER_PWD=<your-admin-user-password>
BASE_URL=<your-base-url>
SECRET_KEY_BASE=<your-secret-key-base>
DISABLE_REGISTRATION=true
MAILER_EMAIL=<your-mailer-email>
SMTP_HOST_ADDR=<your-smtp-host-address>
SMTP_USER_NAME=<your-smtp-user-name>
SMTP_USER_PWD=<your-smtp-user-password>
MAILER_ADAPTER=Bamboo.PostmarkAdapter
POSTMARK_API_KEY=<your-postmark-api-key>
GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID=<your-google-client-id>
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET=<your-google-client-secret>
Configure Caddy
nano reverse-proxy/docker-compose.caddy-gen.yml
version: "3.3"
services:
caddy-gen:
container_name: caddy-gen
image: "wemakeservices/caddy-gen:latest"
restart: always
volumes:
- /var/run/docker.sock:/tmp/docker.sock:ro
- caddy-certificates:/data/caddy
ports:
- "80:80"
- "443:443"
depends_on:
- plausible
plausible:
labels:
virtual.host: "example.com" # change to your domain name
virtual.port: "8000"
virtual.tls-email: "admin@example.com" # change to your email
volumes:
caddy-certificates:
driver: local
Configure MaxMind
nano geoip/geoip.conf
GEOIPUPDATE_ACCOUNT_ID=<your-account-id>
GEOIPUPDATE_LICENSE_KEY=<your-license-key>
Add DNS record
- Record type: A
- Name:
[subdomain] - Value: IPv4 address of DigitalOcean droplet
Add current user to docker group
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
Running
Start server
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f geoip/docker-compose.geoip.yml -f reverse-proxy/docker-compose.caddy-gen.yml up -d
View logs
docker logs -f hosting_plausible_1
Stop server
docker-compose down
