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   Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:25 JST Toilet full of bugs

   Going through that old dickdance of 'trying to install something using a 'super easy guide!' written by someone who presumes knowledge I do not possess'.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:05 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @ephemeromorph

     Could you stick an SMTP server on there/somewhere too?

     I know that's not what you asked, but it's where I ended up last time I set up a service that needed to send mail

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:07 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     Does anyone have a free transactional email service to recommend, which doesn't require me to be a business?

     - I tried Brevo and they wouldn't let me sign up with my Proton email address.
     - Mailgun wants me to provide a copy of my 'acceptable use policy', which I don't have because I'm not a business. I assume Mailjet will be the same because it has the same parent brand.
     - I've heard Mailchimp is crap.

     I just want to set up Discourse (forum software) so volume will be low.

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:10 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     I can't get verified on Mailgun because I need to provide a copy of my 'acceptable use policy'. Jesus.

     I already tried Brevo but they wouldn't even send me the verification email because apparently my Proton email address isn't acceptable.

     I just want to set up a silly little forum.

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:14 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     Apparently I somehow made two Mailgun accounts and that's why I can't get verified.

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:17 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     It's getting more tempting to just pay Discourse $20 a month to host the fucker for me. But that's a little more than I want to pay for a silly message board. I'm trying to host it myself on a wee cloud server for $6 a month, which I'm okay to spend.

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:19 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     Through trial and error, I managed to set up a babby cloud server on DreamCompute and install the Discourse software on it. Hoorj!

     Now I need to create my admin account - which I've found I can't do, because I need my Mailgun account to work first. I can't satisfy Mailgun's captcha and now I've run out of attempts. Dickdance clown fiesta today.

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:22 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     This is after struggling with trying to SSH into the damn thing because 'the default security lets you use SSH with port 22' means 'you have to actually create a SSH rule first, in defiance of the layman's understanding of 'default'.'

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 07:38:24 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     I'm trying to set up a Discourse board using a cloud server with the suggested 1GB of RAM. I've got as far as the part where I install the actual software, but the installation halts because apparently if I have under 2GB of RAM I need a 2GB swap file, and I can't create the swap file because of 'insufficient space'. The cloud server is 80GB big. Like, what do you want from me?

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 08:45:19 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     @ephemeromorph I host one on a VPS from Vultr and another on my own server, but can't recommend a dedicated service, I'm afraid

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     Toilet full of bugs (ephemeromorph@topspicy.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Apr-2025 08:45:20 JST Toilet full of bugs

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     • 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

     @HauntedOwlbear Do you have an SMTP server provider to recommend? I'm on Dreamhost - as far as I can tell it's not a service they offer.