Hi, I have a wordpress site hosted on ‘inmotion hosting’ with a basic yearly plan of around $50/year. Now I want to add a forum to my website. Do I need to now opt for another hosting provider like Digital Ocean and spend additional money? Can’t I use Discourse with inmotion hosting and my curre…

[imagen] Hosting Discourse on Shared Hosting? No it isn’t on shared hosting, as it requires Docker to do the install, which requires special kernel versions and such. You can’t host Discourse in a shared hosting server.

So can I keep my original site say www.example.com on inmotion hosting, and just host the discourse on Digital ocean with subdomain forum.example.com ? Or shall I try moving everything to Digital Ocean?

It is not necessary to host both main and sub domain (Discourse) with same provider.

And it’s much easier not to host them on the same server!

Hi Vinod, Thanks for the answer. Just one more query, since I am not very versed with web hosting and things. Say I am expecting a max of 500-1000 comments on my forum per month. And do not expect more than 1000 people signup for the first 2 years. What would be the minimum configuration that I…

1 gb ram and 2 gb of swap should be enough to get started. You can always do a server upgrade if traffic increases. Any hosting you choose the basic requirement is that they support docker. The first hostings that comes to mind, in addition to DO, are Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway, UpCloud and Vultr but y…

[imagen] vinothkannans: [imagen] Hosting Discourse on Shared Hosting? No it isn’t on shared hosting, as it requires Docker to do the install, which requires special kernel versions and such. You can’t host Discourse in a shared hosting server. That isn’t a good answer. What about answ…

[imagen] Rohit_Singh: site hosted on ‘inmotion hosting’ with a basic yearly plan of around $50/year. @marianco the OP asked the question to install in shared hosting only. [imagen] marianco: What if you upgrade from Shared Hosting to a Managed VPS Hosting in Inmotion Hosting or any other…

Installing discourse on 'inmotion hosting'

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vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan) 25 Octubre, 2017 13:16 2

You can’t host Discourse in a shared hosting server.

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Installing discourse on 'inmotion hosting'

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