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I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($2
by david-given 11y ago
I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($200+ for the first year). Installing it and running it myself requires spinning up a moderately high-end docker instance, which I'm unwilling to do (not only does it cost money, but I've only just managed to stop running my own servers, and it's great).
- scrollaway 11y agoWhy don't you pick the one-time install ($100) on a server you already own? If your ML is low-traffic there's no reason it should cost you much more than a couple dollars a month.
- david-given 11y agoThey won't install it on my own server. The $100 one-time install fee installs it on a virtual server with Digital Ocean, which then costs $10 a month hosting.
- z-e-r-o 11y agoHave a look at discoursehosting.com, they have been around for quite some time and they offer 3rd party discourse hosting for much lower price compared to the official discourse.org hosting.