I followed the tutorial below which got me up and running quickly and simply on Linode (something I was also able to do, but with much more difficulty on DigitalOcean). Through searching on this forum I became aware of a general bias toward Digital Ocean. Notwithstanding this, getting a Discourse u…

[image] Alex Sirota: I’m still looking to recommend a cloud provider that offers one click installs of popular packages like discourse Actually, I think one-clicks on pure VPS hosting providers are a bit of a curse? If you don’t learn some of the basics during the process of installing and s…

[image] Robert: If you don’t learn some of the basics during the process of installing and setting up your own instatiation of the standard install , then you are surely at greater risk not being able to understand or support your own install going forward? If you have to be a Linux system adm…

[image] Alex Sirota: If you have to be a Linux system admin to run these systems then we have lost the battle for wider adoption. No-one is stopping third parties and CDCK themselves offering one-click setup as part of their managed hosting? If you want to save money and go the self-install …

[image] Robert: No-one is stopping third parties and CDCK themselves offering one-click setup? They won’t do it until the underlying technology improves so that all administration can be done in the UI. They are loath to take on support of these systems until it makes economic sense for them …

[image] Alex Sirota: They won’t do it They already have? Just look at Communiteq’s homepage for an example? If you are looking at a VPS host spawning interface, you are already a different class of customer?

[image] denvergeeks: I am agnostic about Discourse hosting providers This topic gives an overview of vps providers with good offers to run Discourse: [image] Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters Sysadmins This guide is intended for people who a…

[image] Alex Sirota: They won’t do it until the underlying technology improves so that all administration can be done in the UI. I do it. My dashboard will create a digital ocean droplet (with plans to support other VM providers) and install there or use any capable VM that you set up and can…

[image] Robert: Actually, I think one-clicks on pure VPS hosting providers are a bit of a curse? I tend to agree with that. Most one-click installs do the installation for you, but since you didn’t do it, you don’t know how to do the basics like do a rebuild. My dashboard will do the one-clic…

You should offer your system for the hosting providers out there. And get an affiliate fee each time they have someone install discourse. I bet if they bite you’ll do really well.

[image] Alex Sirota: You should offer your system for the hosting providers out there. And get an affiliate fee each time they have someone install discourse. I’ve got one group doing something like that, and am working on finding more!

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