Self hosting options

[Tarun_Sharma]

Can we use firebase as hosting options.And what are the best hosting options aws and google cloud.

[merefield (Robert)]

Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters

This guide is intended for people who are not system administrators who just want to make Discourse work. This is a list of cloud hosting services that are believed to be reliable and easy enough for a novice to get up and running with as little fiddling as possible. You should be able to create an account, and a server on which to run your Discourse instance and still be able to pull the job off in very close to 30 minutes. I have installed Discourse on each of these, received an email from Di…

[Tarun_Sharma]

Thank for replying but the guide doesn’t tell anything about firebase as a options and also not included the google cloud. I understand that these may not be the best options but I want to know that can we use them or not.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Our official install guide lists the requirements to host Discourse. If Firebase supports the listed requirements and allows SSH access, it can run Discourse:

• modern single core CPU, dual core recommended
• 1 GB RAM minimum
• 64 bit Linux compatible with Docker
• 10 GB disk space minimum

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

I added this section:

@pfaffman

What about OtherGreatService?

@awesomerobot

Our official install guide lists the requirements to host Discourse. If OtherGreatService supports the listed requirements and allows SSH access, it can run Discourse:

• modern single core CPU, dual core recommended
• 1 GB RAM minimum
• 64 bit Linux compatible with Docker
• 10 GB disk space minimum

[NateDhaliwal]

IIRC Firebase hosting is serverless, so it won’t work with Discourse.