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    Discourse(R) packaged by Bitnami

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    Up-to-date and secure image. Discourse is an open source discussion platform with built-in moderation and governance systems that let discussion communities protect themselves from bad actors even without official moderators.
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    Discourse(R) packaged by Bitnami

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    Overview

    Discourse is an open source discussion platform with built-in moderation and governance systems that let discussion communities protect themselves from bad actors even without official moderators.

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    Trademarks: This software listing is packaged by Bitnami. The respective trademarks mentioned in the offering are owned by the respective companies, and use of them does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.

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    Highlights

    • Discourse is a 100% open source discussion platform with built in moderation and governance systems. It is designed for hi-resolution tablets and advanced web browsers.
    • Let discussion communities protect themselves from trolls, spammers, and bad actors - even without official moderators.
    • It is self-contained so you can duplicate or move the installation to different servers easily

    Details

    Delivery method

    Delivery option
    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Latest version

    Operating system
    Debian 12

    Typical total price

    This estimate is based on use of the seller's recommended configuration (t3a.medium) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. View pricing details

    $0.038/hour

    Pricing

    Discourse(R) packaged by Bitnami

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    Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
    Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator  to estimate your infrastructure costs.

    Usage costs (472)

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    Instance type
    Product cost/hour
    EC2 cost/hour
    Total/hour
    t2.medium
    $0.00
    $0.046
    $0.046
    t2.large
    $0.00
    $0.093
    $0.093
    t2.xlarge
    $0.00
    $0.186
    $0.186
    t2.2xlarge
    $0.00
    $0.371
    $0.371
    t3.medium
    $0.00
    $0.042
    $0.042
    t3.large
    $0.00
    $0.083
    $0.083
    t3.xlarge
    $0.00
    $0.166
    $0.166
    t3.2xlarge
    $0.00
    $0.333
    $0.333
    t3a.medium
    Recommended
    $0.00
    $0.038
    $0.038
    t3a.large
    $0.00
    $0.075
    $0.075

    Additional AWS infrastructure costs

    Type
    Cost
    EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes
    $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

    Vendor refund policy

    N/A

    Legal

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    Usage information

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    Delivery details

    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

    Version release notes
    • Maintenance release
    • Updated apr to 1.7.5
    • Updated rails to 7.2.1
    • Updated gonit to 0.2.11
    • Updated python to 3.12.5
    • Updated setuptools to 70.3.0
    • Updated discourse to 3.3.1
    • Updated orafce to 4.11.0

    Additional details

    Usage instructions

    Once the instance is running, enter the public DNS provided by Amazon into your browser. You will then see the Discourse(R) application. The default server administrator is 'user'. Please check our documentation at https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/faq/get-started/find-credentials/  to learn how to get your password. You may change this username and password within the application settings. You can also access your instance via SSH using the username 'bitnami' and your Amazon private key. For additional setup instructions and frequently asked questions please go to https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/discourse/ 

    Support

    Vendor support

    Bitnami also provides technical documentation for installation and setup issues through our support center at

    AWS infrastructure support

    AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.

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    Ratings and reviews

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    Stu

    Redundant, use the official Discourse setup instead

    Reviewed on Oct 18, 2019
    Purchase verified by AWS

    TLDR: don't bother, set up Discourse on Amazon Linux instead.

    +ve
    * Easy to set up
    * Easy to enable https with Let's Encrypt (But Discourse provide a script to do this anyway so not really valuable anymore)

    -ve
    * Not up to date with the latest version of Discourse and the upgrade button on the admin dashboard is not present. The Bitnami recommended way of upgrading is to copy your whole database to a new server with a fresh install (whenever they update the Discourse version on their stack) which is hardly a user friendly approach. It's also very confusingly described in the documentation.
    * All the official Discourse support assumes you install it with Docker on a vanilla Linux instance. The Discourse "install discourse in 30 minutes" guide makes this easy.
    * app.yml (the main Discourse config file) is not present in this installation, and replaced with a Bitnami config which is not comprehensively documented. This means all the support from Discourse or their community you might get will not apply.
    * Either it is just impossible to set up a CDN due to the removal of the above (or Bitnami aren't documenting how)

    talk.3LineMaps.com

    Discourse Support forum Up in 45 minutes

    Reviewed on Jan 27, 2019
    Purchase verified by AWS

    Very straightforward to setup and configure following Bitnami excellent docs.

    We chose the Bitnami AMI because of their presence on Lightsail (all images seem to be their support stack).

    Straightforward to configure SMTP, email defaults, and the most excellent of all — support for LetEncrypt.org

    * https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/discourse/configuration/configure-smtp/ 
    * https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/discourse/configuration/change-default-email/ 
    * https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/discourse/administration/generate-configure-certificate-letsencrypt/ 

    Neil Bostrom

    Up and running in minutes

    Reviewed on Feb 16, 2015
    Purchase verified by AWS

    Great AMI, got Discourse up and running within minutes. Took me a little while to work out there was already a system user. The instructions could have been clearer around this point.

    Caue Rego

    Easy to install the easy part of it

    Reviewed on Jul 08, 2014
    Purchase verified by AWS

    Beyond this installation, you still need to configure an email server, a dns and, if you want to keep up to date with official releases, a docker on aws so you can easily update it.

    So, it's not of much use in reality. Try the official Discourse steps instead.

    James

    Discourse

    Reviewed on Feb 12, 2014
    Purchase verified by AWS

    Discourse is great forum software, just paying $180 a year for an AWS virtual server to run it is too much.

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