Is iPage.com a compatible website hosting service for a discourse forum?
No. The keywords for cloud hosting are a Virtual Private Server (VPS) that mimics a dedicated server.
iPage’s VPS product is much more suitable although it is not real cheap and it runs CentOS where Ubuntu is recommended:
https://www.ipage.com/vps-hosting
You will need a VPS that meets the hardware and software requirements in the official install document:.
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#hardware-requirements
Digital Ocean is recommended by Discourse.org but there are other options
You can look in the #hosting category for many topics on options.
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