有人能告诉我们可以在 GitHub Pages 或 Netlify 上安装 Discourse 吗

[Devansh_Khetan]

如果这不可行，有人能指导我如何获取免费的 VPS 来安装 Discourse 吗？因为我没有足够的初始资金来启动我的网站。

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

你无法获得一个足以运行 Discourse 社区的永久免费 VPS。不过，DigitalOcean 提供 60 天 100 美元的试用额度，足以支持你前两个月的使用：
https://try.digitalocean.com/developerbrand/

[elijah (Eli the Bearded)]

Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud

https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/install-run-discourse-for-free-in-the-oracle-cloud This blog post is from last year. I didn’t see any mention here; I think Oracle as a hosting company is off the radar for most people. So, before I posted I decided to try it myself to see if it’s really viable. I created a demo site: https://www.opendiscussion.pw I signed up for an account on Oracle Cloud. It said it would take 15 minutes to validate the account but I had to wait two days because of a pro…

这不算是一台大型 VPS，但足以运行一个小型 Discourse 站点。有些人在激活账户时遇到过困难，但一旦激活成功，运行就一切正常了。

[Devansh_Khetan]

有人能推荐一个不需要提供信用卡信息的吗？

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

我认为不存在不提供用户验证就免费赠送 VPS 的主机。你可能需要 elsewhere 寻找答案。