Is the 6$ DO droplet enough?

[Kuro22]

I’m curious, @anxvew have you managed to host Discourse for free?

@xenos

Oracle Cloud offers free centos like servers if you register, you could try that

By chance I saw a topic on this:

Install Discourse on Oracle Cloud Free Tier

--- Oracle offers a free plan including two low-spec virtual machines able to run Discourse. This trial has no time limit. These virtual machines are very slow and I advise you not to use them for hosting a community. That said, it can be enough to host a very small community that doesn’t care about the slowness, or for personal projects/tests. Requirements A credit card number - you won’t be charged anything, but it’s needed to register the free account A domain name An email pro…

This might be helpful for you, though I didn’t try this approach. Also, Discourse is offering free hosting if you meet the requirements. Check this: Free Hosting for Open Source | Discourse - Civilized Discussion