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…

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!

[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? [image] Robert: If you don’t lea…

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: That said, in theory, an official 1-click install would be awesome of course. LOL teeny tiny text ! Learning geekily is always the most fun, but the process of nOObification is the second-most fun. I’ve tried installing Discourse (almost) all of the current way…

Can’t help but think this button is the official 1-click install :smile:

The cloud paid for version is the only 1-click install for sure. All other installs will by definition be custom in some way. Thanks for the DO marketplace link for Discourse. That’s great to know! Linode has one too.

Peruse unsupported-install to get an idea of the things which go wrong with third-party packages and one-click installs. Even if it’s to comment out a broken plugin, the terminal is going to be around for the foreseeable. If that doesn’t convince you that a handful of lines of bash are worth learn…

Oh I know my way around the CLI. I have been using them since the late 1980s. I would like to suggest that the less one has to do in the CLI and more than can be done in the UI post install the better.

[image] Robert: Just look at Communiteq’s homepage for an example? For what it’s worth, I’ve been a happy Communiteq customer for over six years now. We pay anually so it is less than $17/month – and they include email and Askimet anti-spam. They’ve taken care of all the updates and there has…

[image] Jim Rea: Unless you’re planning on a super busy forum, or need to use more than the basic plug-ins, it seems to me that Communiteq is actually less expensive than trying to host Discourse yourself (since email and anti-spam is included). I think Communiteq do great work, and I’d proba…

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