Managed Discourse hosting plans

Discourse

Manage Discourse hosting in Spain, optmized and supervised continuously to ensure your forum works as expected. Get to know Discourse, a platform to create your community, give support, manage topics of your interest.

Our hosting plans gives you an all-included service: discourse service, 30 days rotate daily backup, Discourse support and upgrades.

IP security, VPN access only forums and http:// protection

Our Discourse forum will be configured and protected by https:// certificate with automatic renewals using Let's Encrypt. You will be able to limit your Discource to certain IP set or VPN connections. Optional VPN access is available which can be used, for example, to control and limit traffic for Staff or even to create VPN access only forums.

Managed Discourse hosting : ASPLhosting

Together with your Discourse hosting you will have an exceptional forum platform but also a dedicated support team to ensure your forum is configured to work as expected without any additional expense.

How Discourse works

https://support.asplhosting.com

Respectul with your data and data protection legislation

Your Discourse platform will work in a professional and private manner. We do not share your data with third parties. We do not analize nor process your data in any way. We do not include condition terms to allow assigment, grant, modification, use, etc of your data. Your data, with real use control.

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Managed Discourse hosting plans available

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Price (no taxes included)
1 Year contract
Terms and conditions
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Hard disk drive + DDBB9 GB16 GB30 GB55 GB
Visits per month (max)30.00050.000100.000150.000
Transfer month(max)200 GB400 GB800 GB1,6 TB
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Taxes are not included

Available upgrades

Add 10GB to you hard disk drive
€/month

Taxes are not included

  • Disk space upgrades are permanent and cannot be cancelled once activated.

VPN user access

VPN access each physical user (remote user)
€/month


Taxes are not included

Need dedicated IP?

Get a dedicated IP for your Discourse: Buy dedicated IP: € / year

Relevant features included in your Discourse Plan

I want to setup a professional forum

Managed Discourse plan will provide you a modern and easy to use forum. Mobile, web and tablet ready. For your customers, users, fans, followers.

Backup

Daily backup, supervised and managed by ASPL-hosting to keep all your data safe. We keep a rotating window backup for the last 30 days.

IP security

Want addicional security access to your forum? With optional VPN access you will be able to limit your service to a set of IPs.

More information and frequently asked questions about Managed discourse hosting

Let's encrypt certificate or its configuration, has it any additional expense?

No, no additional expense. All plans have included all work needed to make the platform request Let's Encrypt, and deploy it with your Discourse.

Can I install a SSL certificate that is not Let's Encrypt?

Yes. You can see available certificates at this page. You can also give us certificate you want to be installed or we can give you CSR so you can sign it with another provider.

There is a max connection limit at the commercial offer, what happens if it is reached?

Every plan has resources assigned according to the capacity acquired. If they are exceeded it is a good sign: your forum is working and attracking people. In such case, you will have to upgrade your plan to support that additional capacity to avoid losing visitors.

If you already have biggest plan plan, contact us see next steps.

If you are preparing a campaign that could drive more traffic to your site than supported, contact us so we can help you to review your case and make your campaign to better success.

About transfer limits, what is the max file size that can be transfered?

By default a 4MB limit for files that are uploaded is configured. You can configure these values and others that also apply following next post indications:

How to configure upload max file size with Discourse

If month transfer limits are reached/exceeded, what happens?

If limits are reached/exceeded only in rare occasion, there is no problem. If they are exceeded/reached in a regular basis, then it is required to ugprade the plan.

About VPN access, how does it work? Is it included some VPN access?

VPN access are fully optional. They are only needed if you have special security requirements or if privacy, IP tracking, etc it is an important matter to you. VPN access are also useful to setup VPN only accesible forum.

In all these cases you will need a VPN access for each physical person. You can share a VPN access among several users but not use them at the same time. It will not work if several users connect at the same time using same VPN access.

You can use same VPN access with different Discourse users. In fact, there is no relation between these. VPN access only establishes a protected tunnel to the platform where your Discourse forum is running. Then, that VPN can be used by different Discourse users.

Also confirm every VPN access has an internal fixed IP (it is always the same). This way you can deploy privacy and security policies attached to these IP addresses.

Can I modify forum apperance, web logos?

Yes. You can change and configure all these aspects going to "Admin" -> "Sites configuration". There you can configure logos, colors, etc. Then, every category can also be configured: colors, logos, descriptions, etc.

Can we avoid ads and spam (unauthorized content/users)?

Totally. You define your forum policy. You can configure your forum to work with open subscription, only by invitation or only by Administrator invitation. This has to do with your forum policy. We recommend you to define it and make it public so your users are aware of it.

In any case, if a user does not fulfull your forum's policy (for whatever reason, spam, bad behavior), you can always ban them.

In short, given Discourse design and nature, Spam and unauthorized content is not a problem.

Is it included a mailserver for all transactional mails that are sent by the platform?

Yes: your discourse service comes with a preconfigured, supervised mail server, with reverse DNS and SPF configuration (ask for it) so your discourse can send all mails without any issue.

Because we supervise that mail server, all transactions are recorded so we can debug and inspect any issue associated to mail delivery problems.

Why could be interesting to acquire a dedicated IP for my discourse?

By default, your discourse is delivered with a shared IP and it will work without any problem.

In some cases, because of commercial or organizational image concerns, you might what to run your discourse (web portal) with an independent IP only used by your discourse. To have a decidated IP also adds a stronger image because it looks like it is working as a fully independent server.