Self-hosting support

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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	30403	August 2, 2025
About the Self-hosting support category	0	11447	October 10, 2014
Continued DNS errors no matter what I try	11	62	February 18, 2026
Unusually high CPU usage	31	398	February 18, 2026
How to authenticate email domain for free discourse subdomain? email	4	31	February 18, 2026
Build fails due to ruby version mismatch	16	49	February 17, 2026
Joining Container to Multiple Docker Networks unsupported-install	2	1119	February 17, 2026
One server for 2 Discourse communities? hosting	52	436	February 16, 2026
High rebuild memory requirements: April 2025 edition hosting	32	595	February 15, 2026
Migrating to a new server that has a new DB and new S3 buckets for backup and uploads backups , install	17	101	February 14, 2026
New users redirected to id.discourse.com instead of forum signup hosting , email , discourse-id	4	49	February 14, 2026
Discourse Install 502 Bad Gateway	7	59	February 14, 2026
DiscourseID installation issues hosting	4	53	February 13, 2026
Docker compose addition hosting	0	34	February 11, 2026
Building Discourse image from discourse/discourse - how to install plugins hosting , docker , install	10	143	February 9, 2026
Port 443 not accessible using hostname and Port 80 also fails	14	67	February 7, 2026
How to disable SMTP during installation? email	6	419	February 8, 2026
Hosting Discourse on multiple servers for HA? hosting	1	49	February 7, 2026
Installing on Kubernetes unsupported-install	55	24802	February 6, 2026
Backup Prod -> Snap -> Build Test -> Change Address unsupported-install	5	99	February 5, 2026
Is Docker image discourse/discourse considered safe and production-ready? hosting	17	1318	February 4, 2026
Discourse HA Local Install - Certificate Problem unsupported-install	3	51	February 3, 2026
Guide to Setting Up Discourse Development Environment - Windows 11 dev-install	15	3524	February 1, 2026
SMTP Settings Missing After Install email	6	109	January 31, 2026
TLS cert expiry take 2	2	41	January 29, 2026
Front End update fails with error 502 only if I click 'Update All'. Succeed if 'Update' individially	2	32	January 27, 2026
Discouse with NginX reverse proxy - Cannot log in	4	963	January 23, 2026
Users Can’t Log In After Nginx Setup nginx	1	72	January 23, 2026
Running Discourse at / while serving a custom app at /tickets on the same domain	8	52	January 20, 2026
Multiple app containers for a single Discourse site hosting	5	40	January 19, 2026

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…