# Digital Ocean Alternative
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [November 1, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220 "2017-11-01T15:33:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@burningman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/burningman)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220/1 "2017-11-01T15:33:29Z")
Hey everyone here,
Can any one suggest me the alternative of DigitalOcean. They are wasting a lot of time now by “putting account under review” and this is really bad.
I was going to install “discourse” on digital ocean for my client but After I had created the account and submit money through PayPal they put account under review. My money is also deducted from account.
I don’t have time currently to wait for there reply. This is too much.
Can anyone tell, where I can install Discourse Other than DigitalOcean.
Thanks In Advance
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220/2 "2017-11-01T15:58:51Z")
Anywhere that gives you root access and you can install Docker will work.
There are plenty of topics on this issue. Here are some I found by searching “cheap hosting”: [Cheap Docker hosting?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cheap-docker-hosting/44262), [https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-cheapest-solution-for-hosting/24060](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-cheapest-solution-for-hosting/24060), [What are the cheapest ways to host a Discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-cheapest-ways-to-host-a-discourse/40683).
AWS is also a popular option.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220/3 "2017-11-01T17:17:54Z")
We can have your clients forum up and running in 5 minutes at [https://www.communiteq.com/](https://www.communiteq.com/) 🙂
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### Author:  [@marianco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianco)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2018, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220/4 "2018-03-20T07:49:47Z")
How long does 20 GB of storage last for 1000 users who are on Discourse every day?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220/5 "2018-03-20T07:57:17Z")
Depends how much they upload I would have thought!
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2018, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220/6 "2018-03-20T09:24:24Z")
Probably not the answer you want to hear, but that depends. We have forums that have 1000 daily users that only post once a day, we also have forums that have 1000 daily users that each post three series consisting of 10 high-resolution pictures each day.
But I think the main message is that it takes quite a lot. We don’t see many forums that use that much space, and if they do, they are so successful that it doesn’t really matter ! 🙂
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220/7 "2018-06-10T14:21:20Z")
> [@Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562):
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> This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up and running with as little fiddling as possible. You should be able to create an account, and a server on which to run your Discourse instance and still be able to pull the job off in very close to 30 minutes. I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Di…