Self-hosting

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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…	121	30533	February 24, 2026
How much is Discourse affected by a faster CPU? hosting	43	22173	December 24, 2019
Mailgun is $1/month per 1,000 emails sent (and first 1,000 are free) hosting	53	19327	November 24, 2024
New Digital Ocean pricing! (Spoiler: $5 for a 1GB droplet) hosting	21	21713	May 14, 2023
Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud hosting	106	17323	February 22, 2023
Self-hosted mail-receiver update following Let's Encrypt root certificate change mail-receiver , letsencrypt	12	2422	February 10, 2022
Can I host a Discourse forum for free? hosting , explanation	18	6323	May 14, 2023
Meta is moving to the Cloud :cloud_with_lightning: hosting	47	12152	February 25, 2021
Installing on Kubernetes unsupported-install	55	24864	February 6, 2026
Hetzner launches a VPS service hosting	20	8681	August 19, 2019
freeCodeCamp.org Discourse is Collapsing from Spammer Scripts	16	5106	July 3, 2020
Impact of Let's Encrypt changes in Discourse users on old Android versions hosting	10	1403	December 21, 2020
Multiple Discourses, multiple containers, one server	10	10607	September 21, 2021
Report on using discourse_docker on a CoreOS image hosting	18	6445	June 11, 2016
Goodbye Sparkpost email	30	4188	January 21, 2023
Installing Discourse With Plesk Onyx (Ubuntu 14.04) unsupported-install	47	12628	October 10, 2019
Ansible-discourse: Install Discourse with Ansible (without Docker) unsupported-install , hosting	12	5081	August 2, 2016
My journey into a massive posts rebake job	35	4305	July 10, 2024
Comparing hosting providers hosting	14	6438	January 4, 2024
Hello from Gitpod! (installing on google cloud + automated dev setup)	23	4249	June 9, 2020
Install Discourse on Plesk(Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) unsupported-install	15	6363	July 27, 2023
2.6.0b2 upgrade VERY slow	34	2965	October 4, 2020
S3 image bandwidth costs are getting annoying hosting , s3	31	4184	October 23, 2025
Hetzner experiences hosting	27	12219	June 19, 2023
Upgrade / Rebuilds Fail due to MaxMind DB EOL maxmind	15	8583	March 6, 2020
Hosting options (Discourse hosting vs. 3rd party hosting) hosting	17	6976	August 12, 2019
Success - New Multisite Install on Dedicated server using ServerPilot, Nginx and Apache	22	9639	July 28, 2020
Discourse in a Docker container hosting	28	12698	January 31, 2023
Discourse & Cloudflare	49	5006	January 26, 2024
Discourse Self Hosting with Docker compose unsupported-install	12	4049	April 26, 2025
Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - Windows 11 dev-install	15	3564	February 1, 2026
Will UFW limit Discourse too?	23	1595	August 10, 2022
Digital Ocean hosting: Do I need a system admin? hosting	28	6745	December 14, 2017
How to access the discourse database?	13	17085	March 10, 2022
Mail-in-a-Box email	9	6061	October 20, 2021
A lot of CPU cores or fast cores? hosting	10	3139	December 17, 2020
Becoming the new standard discussion tool for open source projects hosting	17	6726	December 2, 2015
Remove (or merge) Elastic email Unsubscribe hosting , email	34	14309	January 23, 2024
Faster rebuilds?	24	8984	July 11, 2023
Is it safe to upgrade Ubuntu from 14.04 to 16.04.1 via do-release-upgrade, and how-to	24	8811	December 5, 2020
How to uninstall/remove docker and discourse	9	67305	February 24, 2017
Automate Discourse Docker with Ansible unsupported-install , hosting	19	4633	October 6, 2020
High rebuild memory requirements: April 2025 edition hosting	32	612	February 15, 2026
iOS push badly needed, but Discourse.org hosting is too expensive hosting	10	1867	June 6, 2022
Contabo vs. Hetzner vs. Linode vs. Digital Ocean for Discourse Hosting Under $30/mo hosting	19	7500	September 6, 2023
Builds taking very long time server-resources	27	3304	October 18, 2023
Howto use Mailjet as a free SMTP service for Discourse email	9	4718	March 21, 2024
UpCloud.com experiences hosting	25	9154	June 7, 2018
Pros and cons of a multisite installation	13	3909	June 9, 2024
Hosting Discourse on a Raspberry Pi? hosting , arm	38	7371	December 7, 2021

Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters

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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…