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Continuing the discussion from Trying discourse and plugins for github:

particularly post 9

okay so @NateDhaliwal when I go to set up something on digital ocean it costs money you said you have a different way of doing it then I requested for the link to your free installer and then I asked if there are other parts that also need money that you have a free way to do

thanks kyle

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A few things before I begin:

  1. Nothing is always free. Some way or the other, you’ll have to pay.
  2. Compute Engine requires a credit card, though it is free.

Take a look at Compute Engine in the table:

However, I pay for the domain. Namecheap can get you domains at >$1 a month for the first year.

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OK continue

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For my email server, I use Brevo, which gives 300 emails a day on the free plan.
I also forgot to mention, rebuilds on my instance take about 3 hours. But you can probably set up tmux or screen to run it in the background.

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okay i follow

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That’s about it. Anything else you’d like to know?