These guys are doing some reaaaaally shady stuff. I signed-up because they seem reasonably cheap for 200Mbps unmetered, but had a lot of trouble trying to set up Discourse, here’s my story. — First attempt I initially tried out their “instant” discourse offering. Though it is only limited for use…

Updated my post, That last thing turned out not to be a Scaleway issue, since I’m getting the same error on a Vultr instance. Will research into it, it could be a bug or it could be something on Mailgun’s side. Will update …

My bad, I’m an i***t. smtp.mailgun.com != smtp.mailgun.org So it would’ve probably worked out w/ 2525. Anyway, the rest of the experience still holds true. I’m now on Vultr, I’m happy so far.

My forum (and other services) is hosted by Scaleway (Amsterdam location) from January 2017 and I use Mailgun as provider. Until now I did not have any of the problems you described. I did not use the docker image they have on their servers but I installed everything by following the official Disco…

Did you send them a copy of your IDs and a picture of you holding them?~ Sorry, didn’t read that part. As of today that’s a requirement for opening SMTP, so I guess you would’ve bailed out as well. I don’t think one is able to “just install Discourse by following the official guide” on an ARM ins…

The only difference (if i remember correctly) was that we use the ubuntu 16.04 image with preloaded docker because you can’t install docker into another image. Several months have passed but it seems to me that we did this way, then we did the regular discourse installation. Searching for SMTP in…

Trash: Searching for SMTP infos on the scaleway community I see that since September they ask a fax with a selfie for security reasons…which is a weird request. As a native French citizen, Identity verification is a requirement by French legislation for businesses as long as the service alr…

I understand that they have to protect the users and protect themselves, every country has its own laws, what I do not understand is why I have to send a fax via email. Sending a fax means that at home you need to have at least a scanner printer. Is not Telegram/Whatsapp better then? It would be mo…

I have two Production Discourse instances running on Scaleway x86 … not had any instability and for some reason (perhaps because I’ve been live since 2016) I’ve not had to send any ID and SMTP has been fine (though I recall having to open it up initially). Of course I am using an email provider - S…

[image] merefield: Does this just apply to new users? Yes, it is a request that Scaleway only makes to new customers who have registered since September 2017. Customers who have already created an account for their services (before September) have been exempted from submitting documentation…

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merefield (Robert) February 5, 2018, 7:09am 11

Thanks @dax ! Hopefully they will improve their process too.

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