Self hosting for free (with caveats!) with Oracle Cloud

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I’ve created an in-depth tutorial to help install Discourse on Oracle’s free plan.

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…

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