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Are there enough simple ruby hosts for Discourse to catch on? In the same way that there were simple php hosts that helped PHPBB catch on.

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A good idea might be to offer hosted Discourse instances to people who want to get up and running easily.

My hope is that people will choose self-hosted forums over services offered by facebook or google. However the host providers do it they need to make it very easy.

Discourse sell dedicated server solutions, so I don't know how much of a problem it is to them, though. Maybe it'll mean more people use their solution instead of rolling their own.

Just from a cynical commercial point of view.

As long as they still offer the option to host your own I'm OK with that.

Self-hosted communities are an amazing life blood of the free and open Internet.

One of their mission statements is to make Rails deployment even easier.

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