Install Discourse On DigitalOcean Web Hosting [How To]

Install Discourse On DigitalOcean Web Hosting [How To] Make Money Online Queries? Struggling To Get Traffic To Your Blog? Sign Up On (HBB) Forum Now!Install Discourse On DigitalOcean Web Hosting [How To]Updated On 22/02/2016Author : Pradeep KumarTopic : Web HostingShort URL : http://hbb.me/1Q5rI4W CONNECT WITH HBB ON SOCIAL MEDIA Follow @HellBoundBlogIn this article, well share how you can install Discourse on DigitalOcean web hosting server. Before going further, I would like to refresh about both Discourse and DigitalOcean.Discourse is a simple and popular open source discussion forum. They are famous for their Conversations style forum threads. We personally love it a lot because it looks minimalistic.DigitalOcean is a popular web hosting service which offers infrastructure on pay-as-you-use based model. We personally love it a lot because its cheap and has good support.DigitalOcean (DO) is one of the best cloud servers to run Discourse, even they recommend the same. We recently did the Discourse installation on our DigitalOcean ser ver and well share our experience step by step below.How To Install Discourse On DigitalOceanStep 1: Sign up for DigitalOcean web hosting if you havent (get free $10 credit amount).Step 2: Log in to your account. Click on the Create Droplet green button at the top-right corner.Step 3: Now, you have two options. You can either select an image based on the distribution or you can use the one-click application. Well go with the latter option since that is less complicated. Click on the One-click Apps tab and select Discourse there.Even though Discourse needs minimum 1 GB RAM to run, we (and DigitalOcean) recommend 2 GB RAM to make it run smoothly. 1 GB RAM is okay for setting up a forum, but when you get good traffic, youll badly need to upgrade it. So 2 GB RAM plan is our preferred package for running Discourse and itll be worth your investment.You need to pick a plan for setting up Discourse, so under Choose a size section, select the $20/month plan. This is the best plan with suffic ient disk space for Discourse.Also, pick a data center region (sometimes default is good enough) and check out the additional options if you are interested. Do remember that we just need a single droplet for this. You can give a proper hostname so that you can easily remember the droplet name. Thats it. Click on the Create button.READWhat is Reseller Hosting?Step 4: Itll take some time, but itll be successfully installed. Now you just have to do some basic things to finalize the installation. You have to access your new droplet via SSH (Secure Shell) to update these things:Your email address (for the administrator account).SMTP credentials (for Discourse emails). We used SendGrid, would recommend the same.A hostname (domain or subdomain) for your forum. (Tip: Want to use a different server for your subdomain?)If you are a Windows user, you can check out Putty or if you are a Linux (or OS X) user, then you can use the terminal for SSH access. Go there and type this:ssh root@droplet-i p-addressMention your servers IP address in the place of droplet-ip-address and press Enter. Now youll get a screen like this below, if you have all these details ready, press Enter again.Type/Paste all the details they ask there, and press Enter for each question till you reach the end. Thats all you have to do. If everything is correct, then its just a matter of minutes or seconds for you to use your Discourse forum successfully. People usually make some mistakes with the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) details, so its requested to check all the details carefully before you proceed. These are the default settings for SendGrid (but check once again):SMTP Server Host Name: smtp.sendgrid.netSMTP Username: Your SendGrid UsernameSMTP Password: Your SendGrid PasswordSMTP Post: 587This is what we used and it worked like a charm.HAVENT SIGNED UP FOR DIGITALOCEAN WEB HOSTING YET? DONT WORRY:Sign Up For DigitalOcean Web Hosting Now And Get $10 Credit For FREEThats it. Discourse is a wo nderful forum software and if you are interested in installing this on DigitalOcean, Im sure this guide will be pretty useful. If you have any queries regarding this, do comment below and well surely help you out.