Discourse is modern software for your community. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more. You can use this repo to self-host Discourse on Render in just a few clicks! It will create the following components on Render:

• A Dockerized Web Service that runs the Discourse website, background worker, and Redis server.
• A Render PostgreSQL Managed Database.

Discourse does not work without an email server. Setting up and managing mail servers can be tricky, so we've omitted a mail server from the deploy config and strongly recommend using a third-party email provider.

See the official Discourse recommended email providers.

We have tested this repo successfully with Mailgun, but other providers in the list above should work equally well.

Use the button below to deploy Discourse on Render.

See the guide at https://render.com/docs/deploy-discourse.

If you need help, get in touch at https://community.render.com.