Hi guys, Could anyone please clarify to me what are the benefits of using the hosting options featured at Discourse pricing | Discourse - Civilized Discussion vs. hosting with https://www.communiteq.com/ ? Thanks <3

(full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of Discourse) Hosting is our core business at Discourse. The software is available for free, but its current pace is sustained by our hosting plans. By going with us you are directly helping us fund development and making it better for everyone else who uses it! T…

(full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) :sunglasses:) The most important differences (if you ask me): We offer a number of preinstalled plugins on our plans, and we make sure we’ve tested everything thoroughly. We’re (a lot) less expensive , (but with Disco…

Discourse.org hosting is indeed a lot more expensive, especially for folks that can spend the 30 minutes installing on digitalocean. If I had the money however, I would consider it to fund discourse development, as you said. The free customer support here has been worth its weight in gold. I think…

We aim for people and businesses that don’t want to deal with the hassle of setting anything up at all. But even for people who don’t mind spending time on technical details: our price/performance ratio compares to DO very well, and with us you get some extra benefits: With us, you get an autoprov…

[image] Joey_Tuan: If I had the money however, I would consider it to fund discourse development, as you said. The free customer support here has been worth its weight in gold. Agreed, once we’re in a position to we’ll be moving across to discourse.org . I’m much more interested in supporting…

It sounds like you might be a good fit for people with limited or no technical expertise, that have existing traffic. I recall that you handle migrations of large forums, which would’ve clinched it for me (since we had to spend a month dealing with all the migration bugs from a ruby on rails forum) …

[image] Joey_Tuan: you kept saying you’d get back to me but never gave me a solid yes/ no on whether you’d be able to handle it. I would suggest that you guys don’t overpromise, and give a clear no when you’re overloaded. I have just looked in our support system and yes: we could indeed have…

[image] michaeld: With Discourse.org , you’re on tests-passed, with Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting), you’re on stable It’s true we tend to push our customers towards the latest release, but we have many containers running different versions. The only servers that absolutely run on tests…

Thanks for clarifying. I’ve edited my post and removed the bit about the branch differences.

steve_pd: Unless Communiteq (formerly DiscourseHosting) makes some kind of contribution to discourse.org , does it @michaeld ? They contribute here and they contribute in general by promoting the growth of Discourse! It is absolutely not our goal to be the only host of Discourse, we are an o…

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