# discourse platform hosting 

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/discourse-platform-hosting/86806>\
**Category:** Discussion & Solutions\
**Tags:** solved\
**Created:** [May 16, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/discourse-platform-hosting/86806 "2020-05-16T09:23:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![f15](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/f15/32/29547_2.png) [@f15](https://onehack.st/u/f15)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 9:23am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/discourse-platform-hosting/86806/1 "2020-05-16T09:23:55Z")

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Hi,  
I am going to open site with discourse platform.  
what hosting company do you recommend to host this forum?  
what hardware I need to run this site with let say 700 user online fast and stable?

any info will be great.

thanks.

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**Author:** ![Ajisafe\_Eniola](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/ajisafe_eniola/32/104727_2.png) [@Ajisafe\_Eniola](https://onehack.st/u/Ajisafe_Eniola)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2020, 11:06am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/discourse-platform-hosting/86806/2 "2020-12-12T11:06:13Z")

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I recommend Google cloud. Here, it is faster and easier to deploy discourse. Google Cloud has inbuilt discourse software so, you don’t need to download extra software. You can deploy directly from marketplace. Additionally,

There are few things to consider:

1. initial payload is about 1Mb (after that, each refresh is about 50kb);
2. posting per se shouldn’t take more than few KB (this very reply had ~900bytes); posts can be a different beasts, because a post can have images, videos and so on. Recommendations is atleast 500gb capacity disk for a quick and soft launch.