Thanks for your reply.
Nodechef provides a wizard wherein I enter the forum name (for their internal subdomain) and provide a few details like my desired admin email and password and it creates the Discourse forum. There is nothing unusual that could possibly be done (by the user) during the install.
I will wait for their reply to my support ticket. If Nodechef doesn’t work out, I’ll then try Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting).