Hello, Both the Discourse Git Hub Page and discourse pricing page say “Discourse is 100% free and open source.” If I host it myself is it really free? Are there any commercial restrictions? I’ve seen this question covered in lots of old posts but nothing recent / from the past few years so wante…

Hello, That’s right, Discourse is fully open-source, and if you host yourself, it’s 100% free with no restrictions. You can install it by following this guide: discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub . :+1:

The platform itself is still open source and free but you have to pay for a server and e-mail service for it to work.

No news is good news :wink: – the core Discourse is (still) licensed under GPL-2: https://github.com/discourse/discourse?tab=GPL-2.0-1-ov-file#readme We firmly believe any new Discourse sites is a boon, whether we host or not!

If you’re planning to launch a new site it helps to have 2GB of memory instead of just one, otherwise you may have difficulty updating the app through the web interface or even command line rebuilds sometimes fail with error 137 for not enough memory at only 1GB. Adding more swap can help. The docu…

[image] Architect: If you’re planning to launch a new site it helps to have 2GB of memory instead of just one, For online upgrades you now need at least 4GB + 4GB swap imho, because compiling assets whilst simultaneously running the site now requires much more memory. If you are ok doing com…

Rebuilds did work for me with only 2 GB of memory recently with the web interface for new sites without any users, but good to know 4 GB is recommended, is that for fairly busy/active sites you need that much memory?

[image] Robert: that 1GB statement is really out of date Just opened this topic about that. Really hoping we can keep 1GB as the minimum :crossed_fingers: [image] Improvements to js build times in low-memory environments (May 2024) Self-hosting Our offi…

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Just opened this topic about that. Really hoping we can keep 1GB as the minimum

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