Installation

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Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters Hosting This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up a…	115	30012	August 2, 2025
How much is Discourse affected by a faster CPU? Hosting	43	22106	December 24, 2019
Mailgun is $1/month per 1,000 emails sent (and first 1,000 are free) Hosting	53	19236	November 24, 2024
New Digital Ocean pricing! (Spoiler: $5 for a 1GB droplet) Hosting	21	21666	May 14, 2023
Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud Hosting	106	17015	February 22, 2023
Self-hosted mail-receiver update following Let's Encrypt root certificate change Installation mail-receiver , letsencrypt	12	2390	February 10, 2022
Can I host a Discourse forum for free? Hosting explanation	18	6267	May 14, 2023
Meta is moving to the Cloud :cloud_with_lightning: Hosting	47	12014	February 25, 2021
Installing on Kubernetes Installation unsupported-install	54	24541	October 29, 2025
Hetzner launches a VPS service Hosting	20	8651	August 19, 2019
freeCodeCamp.org Discourse is Collapsing from Spammer Scripts Installation	16	5065	July 3, 2020
Impact of Let's Encrypt changes in Discourse users on old Android versions Hosting	10	1390	December 21, 2020
Multiple Discourses, multiple containers, one server Installation	10	10569	September 21, 2021
Report on using discourse_docker on a CoreOS image Hosting	18	6424	June 11, 2016
Goodbye Sparkpost Installation email	30	4146	January 21, 2023
Installing Discourse With Plesk Onyx (Ubuntu 14.04) Installation unsupported-install	47	12566	October 10, 2019
Ansible-discourse: Install Discourse with Ansible (without Docker) Hosting unsupported-install	12	5051	August 2, 2016
My journey into a massive posts rebake job Installation	35	4261	July 10, 2024
Comparing hosting providers Hosting	14	6176	January 4, 2024
Hello from Gitpod! (installing on google cloud + automated dev setup) Installation	23	4214	June 9, 2020
Install Discourse on Plesk(Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Installation unsupported-install	15	6308	July 27, 2023
2.6.0b2 upgrade VERY slow Installation	34	2881	October 4, 2020
S3 image bandwidth costs are getting annoying Hosting s3	31	4106	October 23, 2025
Hetzner experiences Hosting	27	12160	June 19, 2023
Upgrade / Rebuilds Fail due to MaxMind DB EOL Installation maxmind	15	8547	March 6, 2020
Hosting options (Discourse hosting vs. 3rd party hosting) Hosting	17	6937	August 12, 2019
Discourse in a Docker container Hosting	28	12645	January 31, 2023
Discourse & Cloudflare Installation	49	4811	January 26, 2024
Success - New Multisite Install on Dedicated server using ServerPilot, Nginx and Apache Installation	22	9606	July 28, 2020
Will UFW limit Discourse too? Installation	23	1569	August 10, 2022
Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - Windows 11 Installation dev-install	14	3333	August 19, 2025
Digital Ocean hosting: Do I need a system admin? Hosting	28	6685	December 14, 2017
How to access the discourse database? Installation	13	16997	March 10, 2022
Mail-in-a-Box email Installation	9	6023	October 20, 2021
A lot of CPU cores or fast cores? Hosting	10	3100	December 17, 2020
Discourse Self Hosting with Docker compose Installation unsupported-install	12	2795	April 26, 2025
Becoming the new standard discussion tool for open source projects Hosting	17	6686	December 2, 2015
Remove (or merge) Elastic email Unsubscribe Hosting email	34	14222	January 23, 2024
Faster rebuilds? Installation	24	8934	July 11, 2023
Is it safe to upgrade Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04.1 via do-release-upgrade, and how-to Installation	24	8789	December 5, 2020
How to uninstall/remove docker and discourse Installation	9	67289	February 24, 2017
Automate Discourse Docker with Ansible Hosting unsupported-install	19	4620	October 6, 2020
iOS push badly needed, but Discourse.org hosting is too expensive Hosting	10	1865	June 6, 2022
Contabo vs. Hetzner vs. Linode vs. Digital Ocean for Discourse Hosting Under $30/mo Hosting	19	7298	September 6, 2023
Builds taking very long time Installation server-resources	27	3282	October 18, 2023
UpCloud.com experiences Hosting	25	9104	June 7, 2018
Howto use Mailjet as a free SMTP service for Discourse Installation email	9	4622	March 21, 2024
Hosting Discourse on a Raspberry Pi? Hosting arm	38	7337	December 7, 2021
Pros and cons of a multisite installation Installation	13	3859	June 9, 2024
Long loading times for user summary page with slow database Installation unsupported-install	19	1789	July 13, 2023

Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters

This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up a…