We have hundreds of live Discourse sites running the $10/month self supported Digital Ocean (or whatever cloud you like) version for literally years without any

We have hundreds of live Discourse sites running the $10/month self supported Digital Ocean (or whatever cloud you like) version for literally years without any issue at all: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INST... I used to do all these installs for people by hand, and personally support them to ensure that we had indeed built something that was easy to support long term. I stopped doing this after a few years because I knew we had.