Hi everyone, I love Discourse. I have for a long while. I am planning to set up my own community. I just need some advice on hosting. So, I don’t want to the extortionate discourse pricing at £100 per month. So, I am thinking about doing down the self-hosting route. I am not seriously committed to this, so I don’t want to pay anything for it. I already have a computer that I can use but I am not sure if my internet will be able to take the hit. I imagine my community will be very small for a long time with no more than 5 members active at once. So, can someone let me know if my internet speed is good enough? I have taken this test a peek internet usage time in my house as my family are all working from home. Ping - 6ms Download - 68.4Mbps Upload - 18.5Mbps If my internet speed is not good enough, can anyone recommend a free hosting service that I can run Discourse on? I appreciate your time and thanks in advanced.

[image] F_Farnfield: so I don’t want to pay anything for it Then you may be interested in Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud

I will find out if I can self-host first. If not, I will definitely give that a go.

[image] F_Farnfield: If my internet speed is not good enough, can anyone recommend a free hosting service that I can run Discourse on? It’s good enough to handle Discourse, you shouldn’t see any issue in bandwidth. Just as an important note going the self-hosted non-standard installation support here will be limited. Also, I know Discourse hosting might seem expensive but extortionate is a hard word to use.

This looks like a home internet connection. Does it provide a static IPv4? Can it receive incoming traffic from the WAN on privileged ports like 80 and 443?

Hi there @Falco, I don’t actually know about that. However, I am going to leave it for now. If I have any further questions or concerns, I will create another topic. Thanks for the help anywhere

One of the reasons that I have left it for now is that I don’t really know what I am doing. So, if anyone has created a video on how to set it up on Oricle Cloud, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, will I have to purchase a domain?

You should use this blog post: How to setup Discourse for free on Oracle Cloud. It explains how to set it up fairly well.

If I wanted to use a domain, would I have to purchase it separately?

Yes. Namecheap offers really cheap domains if you’re willing to spend just a little bit of money.

Ok, thanks, I will think about it.

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