Modern community forum with mobile-responsive design, SSO support, rich plugin ecosystem, and built-in moderation tools. The platform that runs Stack Overflow's communities, Twitter Bootstrap, Apple discussions, and countless others. Built for Community operators, SaaS companies, brands, hobbyist communities.
Every forum (discourse) plan includes free DDoS protection, full root access, IPv6 networking, daily snapshots, and 24/7 human support.
Order, wait 30 seconds for deploy, log in — your stack is running.
Looks native on phones, tablets, desktop. Discourse's progressive web app feels like an iOS app.
OAuth (Google, GitHub, Discord), SAML, custom SSO endpoints. Slide forum logins into your existing auth.
Automated trust levels, spam detection, flagging, post-history, and per-user mute/timeout.
Polls, badges, chat, gamification, AI summaries, calendar integration.
Users can reply by email instead of visiting the site. Great for old-school technical communities.
Pick from hundreds of community themes or build your own with their theme editor.
Modern community forum with mobile-responsive design, SSO support, rich plugin ecosystem, and built-in moderation tools. The platform that runs Stack Overflow's communities, Twitter Bootstrap, Apple discussions, and countless others.
You could install Discourse on a generic $5 VPS. Most people who try spend an evening on the install, another on hardening, another on backups, and then it falls over the first time the kernel updates. We've done that work — every forum (discourse) plan is tuned, monitored, and updateable in one click.
No black boxes — here's the exact software shipped on every Forum VPS (Discourse) plan.
The Forum VPS (Discourse) image ships with: Discourse + PostgreSQL + Redis (official Docker install). We don't fork or patch — we use the official upstream releases, with sensible defaults for our hardware. Update on your schedule, not ours.
Everything runs in containers via Docker, so updates are atomic. If a release breaks something, roll back to the previous image in 30 seconds. No 'I broke prod by running apt upgrade' moments.
The same KVM hypervisor and enterprise NVMe drives we use across every OliveVPS region.
Pick from 20+ datacenter regions worldwide. Forum VPS (Discourse) VPS pricing stays the same in every region — the hardware specs, the bandwidth allowance, the SSD speed. The only thing that changes is your latency to end users.
Yes, minimum. It runs Ruby on Rails + Postgres + Redis + Sidekiq in production. 2 GB works for ~100 active users; 4 GB for ~1000; 8 GB for ~5000.
Modern stack vs PHP legacy. Discourse is single-page-app, real-time, mobile-first. phpBB/vBulletin are page-reload-per-action and feel from 2008. Migration is supported via Discourse's import tools.
Yes — point an A record at your VPS, run the install with `forum.yoursite.com`, Let's Encrypt SSL is auto-configured.
Yes — we ship the official Docker install (`discourse_docker`). Updates run from your admin panel. The Discourse team's documentation applies directly.
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