How can I host Discourse for free?

Installation
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Well, that is far away from free.

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Once the 2 months ends you can switch to another provider or self host in a Linux VM,

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That basically means you keep hopping from one provider to another. You will eventually exhaust the free trials and will have to pay. Not a solution imho.

Hosting on own hardware has limitations and costs too:.

  1. Cost of hardware
  2. Cost of electricity
  3. Cost of Internet (Plus their Acceptable Usage Policy)
  4. Cost of Maintenance

So in a nutshell, it is not possible to host discourse for free. For short term trials, there are many options depending on user’s needs.

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The other challenge is having a credit card.

Whilst some of these services are temporarily free they will usually want you to demonstrate:

  • who you are
  • that you are credit worthy

Up front.

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9 posts were split to a new topic: Is the 6$ DO droplet enough?

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It’s done:

Feel free to complete guys, there are parts that could benefit from additional information :slight_smile:

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