@sulliops kindly has suggested he will install discourse for anyone, for free here
I found that post, as I was hunting around for an ISO for Vultr to just boot a new instance from - and came across it.
I wonder if this is something that could be developed Owen?
Others?
Save me trying to figure it out?
I understand Digital Ocean have a droplet preset with discourse, so I am going there for this experiment - but I prefer Vultr for hosting, so one place would be better for that reason.
No. There are too many things that are required for a functioning site (host name, functing email for starters).
You can get a “free” install using https://dashboard.literatecomputing.com/ if you’ll join the Free Trial Group and don’t need my support to make it work. It’s pretty trivial for Digital Ocean and Mailgun (since the script spins up the droplet and configures mailgun), and harder if you elect not to use either of those services.