Transitioning to Discourse later

[vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan)]

@nibl

Unless there’s a way to self-host Discourse for under $5/mo.

New Digital Ocean pricing! (Spoiler: $5 for a 1GB droplet)

Digital Ocean made some big changes today! Check out the new price list. First, 1 GB droplet is now only $5/month! Also, very good news for people with high volume sites, the fast CPU offerings now have reasonable amounts of SSD space. [image] Also new are “flexible droplets” that make it easy to switch between difference configurations to see what difference it makes to have more RAM, or more CPUs: [image] If you’ve got a 1GB droplet, you’ll likely want to shutdown, switch to the new 2GB …

Hetzner launches a VPS service

Looks like you can get a Discourse-compatible “cloud” server for € 2.49 / $ 3 from Hetzner now. The price point to host Discourse keeps going down.

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…