# Can I create a community site like this for free? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [October 11, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-a-community-site-like-this-for-free/166874 "2020-10-11T05:02:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Power\_Dev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/power_dev/32/134709_2.png) [@Power\_Dev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Power_Dev)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-a-community-site-like-this-for-free/166874/1 "2020-10-11T05:02:28Z")
Hello everyone, I want to know that Can I create a community site like this for free? ---
**Author:** ![anon89147131](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@anon89147131](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon89147131)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 5:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-a-community-site-like-this-for-free/166874/2 "2020-10-11T05:53:28Z")
Hello, first of all, welcome to the Discourse community, now that you’ve been welcomed, I can start to explain: IN THEORY, yes, you can, and so I did, but if you do, you can’t have over 25 members trying to do something at the same time or it will say too many requests from this IP. I think you’d rather spend 5 dollars monthly on DigitalOcean servers. ---
**Author:** ![Alec](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alec/32/137283_2.png) [@Alec](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alec)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-a-community-site-like-this-for-free/166874/7 "2020-10-11T07:21:52Z")
Check this out > [@Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud](https://meta.discourse.org/t/self-hosting-for-free-with-oracle-cloud/139184): > > [https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/install-run-discourse-for-free-in-the-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](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… For a small forum, it should work fine as an option. If you anticipate the forum growing I would consider Hetzner have a good price /performance combination. > **[Cloud-hosting provider for developers & teams](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud)** > > Cloud-hosting provider for developers & teams. Scalable cloud hosting services – join 400,000+ customers ✓ GDPR-compliant There are also a few mail servers that are free. I use mailjet. Which I think is limited to something like 200 emails a day. ---
**Author:** ![anon89147131](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a8b319/32.png) [@anon89147131](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon89147131)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2020, 7:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-a-community-site-like-this-for-free/166874/8 "2020-10-11T07:34:56Z")
Don’t follow the Oracle article as it’ll get you no where in life in terms of the forum. Edit the ports on the public security subnet and then download docker, discourse etc. ---
**Author:** ![Inkay\_Again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/inkay_again/32/197346_2.png) [@Inkay\_Again](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Inkay_Again)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-create-a-community-site-like-this-for-free/166874/9 "2020-10-19T05:54:26Z")
> [@anon89147131](#): > > Hello, first of all, welcome to the Discourse community, now that you’ve been welcomed, I can start to explain: > > IN THEORY, yes, you can, and so I did, but if you do, you can’t have over 25 members trying to do something at the same time or it will say too many requests from this IP. > > I think you’d rather spend 5 dollars monthly on DigitalOcean servers. Totally agree, spending just a little money always helps when creating a community website and shouldnt be a big of a problem