I think the issue for myself, and many others, is that my site is relatively small; docker support isn’t really there and we really just get access to FTP to upload file structure. I’m not expecting that tomorrow that this becomes a reality, but the vast majority of shared hosts (for smaller sites l…

You can use a subdomain and get your Discourse instance hosted here by the project team. I think there’s another Discourse hoster too, third party. EDIT: And here’s the link to that third party service.

If you can’t get ssh access, and you’re not dealing with a service that specifically hosts discourse, then it’s not going to happen. The technical issues make this a hard limitation. The issue with people who would like to use their current shared webhosting for discourse seems to come down to just…

This will probably never come. Docker et al are the future, hosting discourse is cheap. Installing Discourse itself is not difficult either.

The problem is maintaining it. If something happens and they honestly don’t know the workings behind the software, then they’re going to have a bad experience trying to fix it, short of hiring someone to do it, ie shared hosting. I think perhaps something will be built in the future. A hybrid of …

I’m pretty sure the word your looking for is managed VPS hosting. It’s available by many providers, but the cost increases significantly, depending mostly on the level of management included. On the security bit, if a client doesn’t mention a want for ssh keys, I automatically setup fail2ban without…

If it costs more then the client/user needs to weigh their budget vs learning how to manage it on their own for much cheaper. It’s having one’s cake and eating it too, for a price. :wink:

[image] pl3bs: switching to a complex password correcthorsebatterystaple.net will make happy: users who can’t remember random strings, admins who understand the concept of entropy.

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correcthorsebatterystaple.net will make happy:

users who can’t remember random strings,
admins who understand the concept of entropy.

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