# Comparing hosting providers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/comparing-hosting-providers/100034>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [October 20, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comparing-hosting-providers/100034 "2018-10-20T01:18:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![HostCheetah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hostcheetah/32/120112_2.png) [@HostCheetah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HostCheetah)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 9:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/comparing-hosting-providers/100034/13 "2018-10-26T21:36:14Z")

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Digital ocean has been working for us - Low startup and has a plan that includes Discourse along with scale-ability as resources are needed. We use their WAF and backup instances.

Best,

Dave

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