Discourse

Overview
Discourse on OneCloudPlanet — your community forum on your own domain: discussions get indexed and bring traffic to you, not to a social network.

What is Discourse?
The modern forum standard: live discussions, trust levels, moderation, email digests, SSO with your product. Used by OpenAI, Cloudflare and Figma communities.

Why on OneCloudPlanet?
No Discourse hosting subscription: official hosting starts at $50/mo; here — a 2 vCPU / 4 GB instance. See pricing.
An SEO asset: every topic is an indexed page on your domain.
Notification mail: port 25 is open — pair with Mailcow.

How to launch
1) Sign in at console.ocplanet.cloud
2) Open Marketplace and choose Discourse
3) Pick a configuration and location
4) Wait for deploy
5) Change the default credentials

Post-deploy checklist
• Finish the wizard and create the admin
• Configure SMTP — Discourse requires mail
• Domain, HTTPS and community categories
• Scheduled backups (built-in + instance)

FAQ
User capacity? Communities of tens of thousands on 2 vCPU / 4 GB.
Migrating from phpBB/vBulletin? Official importers cover most legacy forums.