# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 7
### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@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): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-alternative/73220)._