I’ve been looking for free forever hosting for Discourse but I find nothing. Any ideas? [talking butters stotch GIF by South Park]

Oracle has a free hosting plan. [image] Install Discourse on Oracle Cloud Free Tier Sysadmins --- Oracle offers a free plan including two low-spec virtual machines able to run Discourse. This trial has no time limit. warning These virtual machines are very slow and I advise you not to use them for hosting a community. That said, it can be enough to host a very small community that doesn’t care about the slowness, or for personal projects/tests. Requirements A credit card number - you won’t be charged anything, but it’s needed to register the free account A domain name An email pro…

This requries a credit card which I don’t have Do you know any that doesn’t need one?

[image] Firoz Khan: Do you know any that doesn’t need one? No, you’d need a credit card for pretty much all of them.

Heroku is free but IDK how it works Does anyone know how Heroku works? I checked online but I sort of need a video because reading doesn’t help

[image] Firoz Khan: Does anyone know how Heroku works? I checked online but I sort of need a video because reading doesn’t help Have you checked out this YouTube video? [Heroku Tutorial For Beginners - Deploy Your App to Heroku Under 5 Minutes! (Heroku Tutorial)]

[image] Firoz Khan: This requries a credit card which I don’t have When I couldn’t open my trial account at first, I just asked a very good friend to open a trial account for me with his card. Since we trust each other and I’ll only use free features, it was not a problem. But it could be interesting to know what you intend to do with your forum. Build a community? Then, don’t go for the free Oracle plan. It’s very, very slow. You can’t avoid a paid plan for this kind of purpose. Install Discourse just to try stuff as an admin by yourself and do experiment? Then install it on your local machine, it won’t cost a cent.

How? WDYM? :thinking: [image] Coin-coin le Canapin: Install Discourse just to try stuff as an admin by yourself and do experiment? Then install it on your local machine, it won’t cost a cent.

There are install guides here for development purposes: #dev-install You should not use a developer install to run a community though. If you do not have access to a credit card you will have a very hard time finding hosting, even for the limited free hosting that exists, credit cards are often used for verification purposes to combat spammers/scammers. Please search Meta before starting a new topic, this has been asked and answered many times before: Search results for 'free hosting' - Discourse Meta

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No, you’d need a credit card for pretty much all of them.

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