https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/install-run-discourse-for-free-in-the-oracle-cloud This blog post is from last year. I didn’t see any mention here; I think Oracle as a hosting company is off the radar for most people. So, before I posted I decided to try it myself to see if it’s really viable.…

[immagine] anon89147131: I have had it and even support said it’s not free so I’m a bit confused. Did you actually had to pay something? Can you share your invoice? Like @jtbayly , a friend and I have both free servers on Oracle since May and we haven’t been charged anything. From Oracle’s w…

[immagine] anon89147131: But anyways - I setup a sandbox discourse forum for 40 dollars for my 100 dollar trial on Digital Ocean so that’s fine. Discourse will run fine in a $5 DigitalOcean droplet. Don’t use their one-click installation.

Alright, thanks. I appreciate it.

WARNING: Discourse requires 1GB RAM to run. This system does not appear to have sufficient memory. Your site may not work properly, or future upgrades of Discourse may not complete successfully. Can not install.

You aren’t really telling us anything useful for us to be able to help you. The free tier has 1GB of RAM which is adequate, is that what you’re installing on?

Yea, i’m using free tier: [image] But check on cli is not 1GB: [image] Don’t know why.

Seems strange as when using Digital Ocean it’s telling me it requires 2.

No; I haven’t paid anything as I deleted my instances but free credits were taken off of my account and this shouldn’t of happened.

It will enable swap on a 1GB server, but either way you need 1GB of RAM.

Yep! Seems to be working now, https://discourse.work is online.

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ddf (ddf) 26 Ottobre 2020, 5:22pm 77

Sì, sto usando il piano gratuito:

Ma controllando da CLI non risulta 1 GB:

Non so perché.

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