# What are the cheapest ways to host a Discourse?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-cheapest-ways-to-host-a-discourse/40683
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** hosting
**Created:** [2016 年3 月 7 日 09:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-cheapest-ways-to-host-a-discourse/40683 "2016-03-07T09:11:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@CamilleRoux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/CamilleRoux)
#### Post date: [2016 年3 月 7 日 09:11 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-cheapest-ways-to-host-a-discourse/40683/1 "2016-03-07T09:11:47Z")
Hi,
What are the cheapest ways to host a Discourse currently? (for small communities)
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [2016 年3 月 7 日 09:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-cheapest-ways-to-host-a-discourse/40683/2 "2016-03-07T09:41:21Z")
Anything that has at least **1GB of RAM** and **supports docker** is fine for small communities.
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [2018 年6 月 10 日 14:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-are-the-cheapest-ways-to-host-a-discourse/40683/10 "2018-06-10T14:21:44Z")
> [@Recommended Hosting Providers for Self Hosters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-hosting-providers-for-self-hosters/79562):
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> 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…