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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by throw2016 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:31PM (#14090377)
I doubt Discourse will run on a $5 VPS. The last time I checked its crashes on 512MB RAM, needs at least 1GB just to start. Have the minimum requirements changed? 1GB minimum and 2GB is recommended by Discourse itself.

Discourse is also not easy to setup, its quite involved and complex and you need some Ruby and systems expertise. Infact I think Discourse only supports Docker installs. So you need to know Docker too.

Given the complexity you should be pretty comfortable with Ruby to run it with any amount of confidence. The hosted option seems much better than trying to run it yourself.

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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by xfalcox on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:41PM (#14093178)
I believe Linode and Vultr already have $5 1GB VPS offers.

Also the Official Install Guide[1] doesn't require any Docker-fu.

Also, we give hosted Discourse for free for open source projects with a big enough community to have a forum[2].

1: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INST...

2: https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-host...

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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by aeorgnoieang on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @04:06PM (#14091947)
I did just run across a cloud provider with $5 VMs with 1 GB of RAM (somewhere), but the last time I checked it's at least $10 per month to host Discourse on DigitalOcean or similar.
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Re:Why Slack is inappropriate for open source communications by spectistcles on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:38PM (#14093830)
To be fair, you don't actually need to know Docker beyond being able to follow a tutorial.
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