# A 1-year gratis one-click hosted solution for Discourse!

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-1-year-gratis-one-click-hosted-solution-for-discourse/15071
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [Avril 25, 2014, 7:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-1-year-gratis-one-click-hosted-solution-for-discourse/15071 "2014-04-25T19:35:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![reaon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@reaon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/reaon)
#### Post date: [Avril 25, 2014, 7:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-1-year-gratis-one-click-hosted-solution-for-discourse/15071/1 "2014-04-25T19:35:01Z")

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1. Register here: [Free Cloud Computing Services - AWS Free Tier](http://www.aws.amazon.com/free) which gives you one year free service
2. Register here: [Discourse(R) packaged by Bitnami](https://bitnami.com/stack/discourse/cloud/amazon)

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### Author: ![radq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/radq/32/104329_2.png) [@radq](https://meta.discourse.org/u/radq)
#### Post date: [Avril 25, 2014, 7:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-1-year-gratis-one-click-hosted-solution-for-discourse/15071/2 "2014-04-25T19:38:55Z")

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Hmm, the t1.micro instance only has 0.613 GB of RAM, not sure if that is enough to run Discourse. Are you running a production Discourse instance on a t1.micro?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [Avril 26, 2014, 12:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-1-year-gratis-one-click-hosted-solution-for-discourse/15071/3 "2014-04-26T00:55:18Z")

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It might be OK for bare bones testing but I would be very careful here with anything you actually use in production with real users discussing real topics.

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### Author: ![watchmanmonitor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/watchmanmonitor/32/430970_2.png) [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [Avril 27, 2014, 6:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-1-year-gratis-one-click-hosted-solution-for-discourse/15071/4 "2014-04-27T06:22:01Z")

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Do these run with the supported Docker underpinnings?

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### Author: ![BDub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bdub/32/108566_2.png) [@BDub](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BDub)
#### Post date: [Avril 27, 2014, 4:43 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-1-year-gratis-one-click-hosted-solution-for-discourse/15071/5 "2014-04-27T16:43:39Z")

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I tried this solution before and the t1.micro is just so under powered it’s not good for actual use. Also I didn’t see a reliable way to upgrade discourse using the bitnami image on amazon, but maybe there is one that I didn’t see. Also it didn’t use Docker which is very nice 😄