Honestly, forum hosting requirements are pretty minimal in general. Indeed, for many scripts, you can get away with a cheap shared hosting account until you hav

Honestly, forum hosting requirements are pretty minimal in general. Indeed, for many scripts, you can get away with a cheap shared hosting account until you have about 50-100,000 points and 10,000 members or so. In many smaller communities cases, they'll never outgrow it. And for something like Discourse, well a cheap Digital Ocean VPS or something would work quite well for most people and sites. Most aren't active enough to put any real pressure on a hosting account.